That doesn't make any sense. [Elizabeth, bless her, is still in a state of idealism. The world, in her opinion, should function as it does in her books. Logic. Facts. Conclusions drawn from evidence. Romance and fiction when the moment called for it.]

If she could make Columbia fly, she could do it again. And then who would claim she wasn't a physicist? Blind people, probably. People who are annoyed they didn't do it first.