The Science that shapes my imagination

Ever since I began The Galatean Saga, I’ve found myself paying closer attention to the rhythm of scientific discovery.

Today I’ve read about Peking University’s analog RRAM chip, a breakthrough that solves complex equations 1,000 times faster than today’s best digital processors.

Then there’s the Relational–Transactional Interpretation of Gravity (RTI-G), which redefines gravity as a relationship rather than a force.

Other breakthroughs continue to reshape how I see both science and storytelling:
– The 37-dimensional photon experiment from the Technical University of Denmark, where a single photon existed in thirty-seven states at once; The advances in bistable auxetic materials that can change shape and stay stable in multiple configurations; China’s “SkyDrift” magnetic bubble train, a levitating pod moving in a self-contained magnetic field, frictionless and silent...

And the cosmos keeps offering mysteries that could have been written by the stars themselves. The repeating day-long gamma-ray burst GRB 250702B, discovered this year, defies everything we thought we knew about stellar collapse: a cosmic signal that behaves more like a pulse than an explosion.

Each discovery builds a new layer over my fictional world, and while I don’t pretend to understand exactly how these work and the math and physics behind each innovation, I am thinking about how each of them could shape the future. Every new theory and every unexpected breakthrough has been transformative, feeding the imaginative core of my world-building.

 

“May you live in interesting times.”

It’s said as a curse, yet I choose to see it as a blessing.
Because while much of today’s news makes my heart ache—the wars, the famine, the cruelty people release upon one another—there remains a bright ray of light in these scientific breakthroughs.
They remind me that beyond our human failings, there’s still brilliance, creativity, and hope, proof that we are capable of imagining, building, and dreaming towards a better future.

The universe keeps whispering new possibilities. I simply listen.

And if you will read closely, you might see glimpses of these discoveries (and perhaps recognize their origins) within the stories of The Galatean Saga.