That scenario brings to mind a short story I read once. A scientist had invented a device that accelerated time within a certain radius of the machine. When he activated it, it killed him, because of course he was inside the area that the machine affected when he turned it on, and it acclerated his aging process. He died of old age in a matter of seconds. His assistant lost an arm trying to rescue him when she reached into the field to try to pull him out. There was also something about a hole burned through the wall of the lab due to a flashlight that entered the effect of the time-accelerating field. The entire energy output of the flashlight was drained from it in a microsecond, causing a burst of light that incinerated the spot it was pointing at.

I know there was more to the story than that, but I can't remember the details. The police were investigating it, and it was one of the detectives who finally peiced together what happened in the end.

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