When Thomas woke up the next morning, he called in sick to the laboratory. He wanted to spend all of his time thinking about the problem without any distractions. According to his calculations, he should regress one year every eight hours, or three years a day. He decided that he should be able to see noticeable signs of youthening at about age thirty. Sometime Wednesday afternoon or about eighty hours from the time of the original dosage he would pass the thirty-year mark on his downward spiral into infancy.
After a day’s work fruitlessly attempting to find a solution, Thomas determined that he needed more time to find the answer. He decided to stay home from work the entire week, preferring to spend his time in his study modeling the formula’s behavior.