The lab fell into an unnerving silence.
Every eye in the room turned toward Daniel Hayes, curiosity and bewilderment written across their faces. The unspoken question hung thick in the air: Do you even realize what you just said?
A physics PhD student completing research in computational mathematics for partial differential equations, and not just any equations, but a widely applicable type? It sounded as absurd as hearing that a science major had scored perfect marks in political theory.
True, mathematics and physics were deeply interconnected disciplines, especially when it came to theoretical physics. But Daniel was studying under Elias Vance, which meant he was clearly pursuing experimental physics. And theoretical physics was notoriously abstruse, far beyond what a doctoral student
