It would seem that the only people on Earth whose perception of time hasn’t ground to a
stop are the three—Dr. Manthis, his golden-haired daughter June, and radio engineer Jack
Baron—who took Manthis’s hashish injection. But how are they to bring the rest of
humanity back to speed?
— Michael Main
Think a minute. If the watch seems running double speed that would indicate that your
perception of its movements had slowed down fifty per cent.
Altered Metabolic Rates: Hard to tell whether everyone has become Sleeping Beauties or their metabolic rates have just slowed, but we’re going with slowed metabolic rates—or possibly just time-perception rates.
Think a minute. If the watch seems running double speed that would indicate that your
perception of its movements had slowed down fifty per cent.
1 English variant