When it is realized that a number of clocks simultaneously appear to be running fast but do not appear to be malfunctioning, the narrator decides to explore the explanation that people's brains are computing slower. The race obtains air from swappable lungs filled with pressurized air ( argon) from underground. The scientist is a member of a race of air-driven mechanical beings. The story is epistolary in nature, taking the form of a scientist's journal entry. In 2019, the story was included in the collection of short stories Exhalation: Stories. It was first published in 2008 in the anthology Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Jonathan Strahan. "Exhalation" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
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