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And a year ago the Belgian scientist , Delgar , claimed to have entered a secondary world which he declared impinged on our own . Assuming all this to be true , then it could be that the Tanganyika television set was a product manufactured in Future Time by a company that , by Sutter 's Time standards , did n't yet exist . The following day saw Sutter begin an experiment of which he was rather proud . Travail had said that he had tried to tune in the noon news broadcast yesterday on the TV and had turned the set on from twelve o'clock until five minutes after . At a nearby appliance store Sutter purchased a clock control which would turn his television set on and off at any chosen time . He set the control for two o'clock , then managed to lure Travail out of the house for the afternoon by giving him an invitation he 'd received for a lecture on marine life at a local club . Next , he drove again to the H-bomb site and stood waiting in the grass-like park , watch in hand .