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- John worked every machine, then moved to a speed bag, a leather ball attached to the floor and ceiling by a thick elastic band. There were only certain allowed frequencies at which the bag could be hit, or it gyrated chaotically.
- His fist jabbed forward, cobra-quick, and struck. The speed bag moved, but slowly, like it was underwater … far too slowly considering how hard he had hit it. The tension on the line must be turned way down.
- He twanged the line and it hummed. It was tight.
- Was everything broken in this room?
- He pulled a pin from the locking collar on the bench press. John walked to the center section—supposedly one gee. He held the pin a meter off the deck and dropped it. It clattered on the deck.
- It looked as if it had fallen normally … but somehow it also looked slow to John.
- He set the timer on his watch and dropped the pin again. Forty-five-hundredths of a second.
- One meter in about a half second. He forgot the formula for distance and acceleration, so he ran through the calculus and rederived the equation. He even did the square root.
- He frowned. He had always struggled with math before.
- The answer was a gravitational acceleration of nine point eight meters per second squared. One standard gee.
- So the room was rotating correctly. He was out of calibration.
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