 Which of these is the most important reason Dr. Niemand contacted Dr. Hillyard specifically?
This, be it understood, is fiction—nothing but fiction—and not, under any circumstances, to be considered as having any truth whatever to it. In the closing days of December, 1957, at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New York, Dr. Niemand delivered a paper entitled simply, "On the Nature of the Solar S-Regions." These implications are discussed here in an exclusive interview with Dr. Niemand by Philip Latham. Dr. Niemand, what would you say is your main job? I suppose you might say my main job today is to find out all I can between activity on the Sun and various forms of activity on the Earth. What do you mean by activity on the Sun? NIEMAND. I'm afraid I can't say just what a sunspot is. It means you can only approximately predict the future course of sunspot activity. There is unquestionably a correlation between sunspots and disturbances of the Earth's magnetic field ... Now, Dr. Niemand, I understand that you have been investigating solar and terrestrial relationships along rather unorthodox lines. I think our biggest advance was the discovery that sunspots themselves are not the direct cause of the disturbances we have been studying on the Earth. Whereas the real cause is an invisible filterable virus. In the solar case it turned out to be these S-Regions. It is extremely doubtful, however, if the radiation we detect is the actual cause of the disturbing effects observed. I suppose the oldest problem in the world is the origin of human evil.
 Dr. Hillyard is located on the east coast
 Dr. Hillyard is located on the east coast  Dr. Niemand wanted to see if this was happening in other parts of California  They were old roommates, so Dr. Niemand could trust him with his theory  They were friends from medical school