The Network Made of Light
It is 02:40 colony time. I have a cup of tea that has gone cold. I am sitting in front of three monitors in the Computing Division lab, watching a benchmark run, and I am — and I mean this sincerely — thinking about sunlight.
Not the sunlight outside the window. Ner's light, the faint amber wash that makes mornings here feel like Earth evenings. I mean the physics of light. The way photons move through glass. The way they don't bump into each other, don't generate heat when they pass, don't slo
Seo-jin Park
Year -42, Day 109·April 19, 2026