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The exploration of the consequences of this is incomplete; for example, the inventor and his companion find that while under the influence of the elixir they can easily singe their clothing from the heat produced by friction against the air as they walk, such is the rapidity of their motion; but this
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in December 1901. The story addresses an elixir, invented by Prof. Gibberne, that accelerates all of an individual's physiological and cognitive processes by some orders of magnitude, such that although the individual perceives no change in themselves, the external world appears almost frozen into
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same air friction would render it impossible to breathe at a correspondingly accelerated rate, and this difficulty is ignored.
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immobility, and only the motion of most rapidly moving objects – such as the tip of a cracked whip – can be perceived.
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features, among other characters from literature and comic, Prof. Gibberne's son Andrew Gibberne.
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titled "The Night of the Burning Diamond" (season 1, episode 26, originally aired 8 April 1966).
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that describes the possibility of scientific discoveries to be both a blessing and a curse.
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In 1966, the premise of this story was adapted as an episode of the CBS TV series
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The drug has considerable advantages, as well as risks, drawing upon a
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In 2001 it was adapted for the first episode of the 2001 miniseries
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Index

Short story
H. G. Wells

Amazing Stories
Science fiction
science fiction
H. G. Wells
The Strand Magazine
trope
Wells' literary works
Amazing Stories
The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells
La Brigade Chimérique
"H. G. Wells, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering: A Dystopic Future"
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Amazing Stories
The complete short fiction of H. G. Wells
Standard Ebooks
The New Accelerator
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
The New Accelerator
LibriVox
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H. G. Wells
Bibliography
The Time Machine
The Wonderful Visit
The Island of Doctor Moreau

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