"I believe Narasimha was using one as well," Ales muttered at he stared at the reading. That left the fourth, wherever it was. Possibly being used by the Cult for all he knew.

The lack of readings caused him to glance at the power supply, in case someone had accidentally unplugged or blocked it. There had to be an error in how the machinery was set up, yes. Ales grabbed the stool he had carried around the entire meeting (on wheels, to help the smaller scientists reach books in high places) and clambered onto the input panel. The readings were wrong, they had to be displaying something.

"Is this set up right? There has to be some kind of output here. We've never had a reading of absolute zero before."