 Why did Jerome not stop when he was being shouted at when leaving the futuristic civilization?
There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with ... But some men aren't sane; thus it isn't always so! You will, you know, so why quibble about it? At least, you always have ... or do ... or will. Yes, it'll be pretty obvious it must be a time machine. You'll be puzzling over what I'll tell you, and you'll be getting used to the idea that you are the man who makes atomic power practical. Jerome Boell, just a plain engineer, the man who put atomic power in every home. You are completely outside of time and space, as best you can guess how things are. "Maybe it's no dimension—or it might be the fifth; if you're going to skip over the so-called fourth without traveling along it, you'd need a fifth. I figured out once that such a universe would need some seven or eight time and space dimensions. Maybe there is no machine, and it's just easier for us to imagine it. When you spend thirty years thinking about it, as I did—and you will—you get further and further from an answer. That means you either carry a small time field with you, or you are catching a small increment of time from the main field. He told me, just as I'm telling you, that it's an interstellar civilization." There's no feeling of acceleration—some kind of false gravity they use in the future.
 He was unsure what they wanted and didn't want to wait and find out.
 He was unsure what they wanted and didn't want to wait and find out.  He knew they had caught on to his actions.  He was fearing being held there for theft.  He knew they were going to switch the generator with another