R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T. question, he was waiting for Whittock to cough when "googol" was mentioned; which occurred as he had predicted. Following this, Tarrant was called to the stand and he stated that he hadn't noticed anything amiss during the filming and hadn't heard any coughing. Tarrant said that the Ingrams had been behaving following the win "as normal as people who had just won £1m would be in that situation." He also stated that he would not have signed the cheque if he had had suspicions of Charles cheating and was "shocked" when he heard about the allegations. The floor manager stated
Question and Answer (novel) if not stopped, cause "another war which humanity may not survive" (as described in "Marius"). On these terms, Anderson is obviously on the side of psychotechnics and the characters representing the author's point of view act accordingly. In "Question and Answer", however, psychotechnics – having succeeded in establishing peace and stability – sets itself squarely against spaceward expansion, seeking to keep humanity within the protecting cocoon of the Solar System and prevent its spread throughout the Galaxy. With this at stake, Anderson (and the character representing his point of view) turns against psychotechnics and for galactic expansion. This is inevitable,