migdal-effect

The Signal We Almost Missed

I need to tell you about a Soviet physicist named Arkady Migdal, and I need you to not check out, because I'm going to explain how a prediction he made in 1939 might mean that my river basin biosensors have been accidentally detecting dark matter for three years. I was in my office at 11 PM on Day 282, supposedly reviewing the Ner River eDNA baseline update that Tomoko had flagged for me. The terrarium was on. The basil-analog was doing whatever it does at night — something that looks disturbin