Six Matches by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Short summary

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Occupational Safety and Health Inspector Rybnikov is investigating an incident involving the head of the physical laboratory, Kolmin Andrei. The latter is now lying in the hospital with a damaged memory.

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Right now Occupational Safety and Health Inspector Rybnikov is investigating one incident. In it, Andrei Kolmin, head of the physical laboratory at the Central Brain Institute, was hospitalized with memory center lesions and nervous exhaustion, which led Andrei to a hospital bed.

An investigation revealed that three months before the incident, a neutrino generator used to create neutrino pulses had been brought into the laboratory. After that, Kolmin locked himself in the same room with the generator and his assistant Gorchinsky.

No one ever dared to find out what the scientist and his assistant were actually doing there. Until Gorchinsky jumped out of the laboratory, grabbed his medicine cabinet and headed back. And after the experiments were over, many of the staff noticed that Andrei’s arm was bandaged.

Then strange things began to happen. First, the scientist recited fragments from the work «River Sloughs» by heart. Then he began to show tricks.