ABSTRACT
John looked at his watch. How could it be just 30 seconds from the last time he had looked? It seemed like an eternity *College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute,
unwound every minute he waited. As he drifted back to another monumental pause, a thought flickered. Wasn’t this the same place he had waited last year? Wasn’t it just about the same time? Why couldn’t he put his finger on it?
