Living on the Edge of Time
Copyright (C) J.Travers 1996 - 2000, Malaysia
Bala looked at his watch again. He couldn't believe it. "Impossible" he said to himself. "No one would ever believe him." It shattered his faith and made him feel very alone. "Why did I ever start this PhD program?" he wondered.
He was young then, idealistic and the world was his to take. Just fresh from university, graduating in Electronic Engineering with honours, his professor had convinved him to stay on and do his PhD. Of course, he had to finish his Masters, then there were the teaching assignments that supplemented his meagre scholarship. And now he was in his fourth year of the PhD program, having completed a series of papers on molecular computing. The idea being that the current technologies were slow as electronic charges and potential differences made logic circuits work. The silicon based technologies were approaching their limits of performance and scientist and engineers all over the world were looking for alternatives to the current silicon based digital circuits.
His professor, like all good professors around the world, had suggested investingating atomic orbitals. The idea being that they used the electron orbital positions to hold logic zeros and logic ones which is the essence of modern computing technology. Anyone who succeeded would have a memory chip which could hold all the information in the world, be it pictorial, audio or text. A memory chip smaller than your little finger nail.
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