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Can light hold memory?

New research suggests photons can encode information into matter—reshaping how we think about data and memory itself.

My latest essay ↓
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The Memory of Light
When light rewrites the rules of memory
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November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This year’s Nobel in Physics honored the impossible—scientists finally saw a particle tunnel through a barrier once thought unbreachable.

I wrote about what that moment reveals: faith before proof—and how it echoes through the worlds I keep imagining.

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October 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
New post: How a block of silica taught me that engineering and poetry aren't opposites—they're dance partners. On aerogels, stardust, and why materials are the best storytellers. xuanbanguyen.substack.com/p/the-poetry...
The Poetry of Materials
When engineering meets poetry, even a block of silica can hold a piece of sky.
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August 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New on Substack: *Logic Gates and Language*
Debugging chips by day, collecting favorite words by night—and how those two selves eventually wrote together.
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Logic Gates and Language
I used to debug timing violations by day and collect favorite words by night. Eventually, those two selves found a way to write together.
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August 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I’ve had this account a while. Finally surfacing—with a question:

What if another you lived the life you left behind?

That’s what I explore in Many Earths:
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The Engineer, the Poet, and the Woman in the Mirror
What if another version of you had made all the right choices?
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July 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM