Raphael Simon

Waves In Time

Waves In Time By: Raphael Simon Late one evening in the darkness, a glow was visible in the working area of the oceanographic institute offices, all the lights were off except for the two fluorescent lights casting beams over a sea of cubicles. The light faded out into what could have been an infinite number of neat rows but the ones at the center were bright and clear standing out like a bacon in the darkness, a young man who snuck into the facility that night sat with his head hunched and contorted stretched out in a position as if to be almost inside of the computer screen he is gazing at with nervous anticipation. The only sound that can be heard is the clatter of the key board at a frantic rate while one leg was pumping up and down and his glass of water next to his mouse pad, ripples were fighting with each other back and forth from the vibration of the two independent sources of motion. You see this seemingly insignificant computer geek is about to launch a program that will literally change the human condition in ways this programmer could not even begin to realize.