Title: "The New Accelerator" by H. G. Wells

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The book I have read is "The New Accelerator" by H. George Wells. It is a short story about two friends, Professor Gihberne and the author himself. The book tells about a new discovery of a professor and what impact it may have on human beings and human life.

Professor Gihberne is a famous physiologist and for a long time has been working on studying the impact of diverse drugs upon the nervous system. Besides he is a prominent chemist who has made very important discoveries. Before inventing "The New Accelerator" he has already developed several preparations, which helped to save a lot of human lives. But the story is particularly about his new invention of a nervous stimulant. He has always wanted to find a drug which would influence the central nervous system along with the brain and leave a person active physically, to find a drug that stimulates all around and makes a man go two or even three times to everybody's one. This would help one to think twice as fast, move twice as quickly and do twice as much work in a given time as he/she could do otherwise. This preparation would give a person more time to do his usual work, to have more time to make important and urgent decisions. But there is one disadvantage of it, and it is that this preparation brings someone nearer old age, which means that the one who uses it gets older twice as fast. Finally, he has managed stuff like the one described above, and proposed his friend (who is the author of the book) to try it himself.

The author has always had an interest in metaphysics. He often discussed professor's inventions and surveys with Gihberne and knew everything about the development of "The New Accelerator". He is very interested in new discoveries and was as eager about them as the Professor himself. Thus when Professor Gihberne offered him to come and try a preparation he decided to do so. The author was kind of scared first, because as he said "I am only theoretically adventurous", but he felt proud about being the first man who tries that incredible preparation that could revolutionize all notions of physics and nervous physiology. As we all know a lot of crazy things and crazy discovering were done because of human pride and desire to become supreme over others. The impact of the drug is that a person starts moving and going several thousand times faster, even his heart, lungs, muscles and brain start working much faster. That is why it seems that the rest of the world moves many thousand times slower.

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