When the Third Doctor was taken to Jaeger's laboratory, he considered it adequate. Jaeger was assigned to, not only change the atmosphere of Solos, but for the present time help the Doctor open and therefore find out what was inside the message pod sent to him by the Time Lords. The Doctor was openly opposed to Jaeger's experiments, and said that the Solonians were concerned about it, but Jaeger didn't listen. He didn't see the need for the Doctor's concern. He didn't believe that particle reversal would work to open the pod, he claimed it was a senseless waste of time as it hadn't been achieved yet.