GR translation: what hep humorists here are already calling “Critical Mass”

[Mike Jing]

V539.10-24, P548.12-26   DEVIL’S ADVOCATE’S what the shingle sez, yes
inside is a Jesuit here to act in that capacity, here to preach, like his
colleague Teilhard de Chardin, against return. Here to say that critical
mass cannot be ignored. Once the technical means of control have reached a
certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the
chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning.
It’s a potent case Father Rapier makes here, not without great moments of
eloquence, moments when he himself is clearly moved . . . no need even to
be there, at the office, for visitors may tune in from anywhere in the
Convention to his passionate demonstrations, which often come in the midst
of celebrating what hep humorists here are already calling “Critical Mass”
(get it? not too many did in 1945, the Cosmic Bomb was still trembling in
its earliness, not yet revealed to the People, so you heard the term only
in the very superhepcat-to-hepcat exchanges).

Does the word "critical" here refer to the nature of Father Rapier's
sermon, as in "given to adverse or unfavourable criticism"?
I'm aware of the pun, of course.
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