--- title: The Universe, the Uncanny, and Fashion | daily.dev description: A personal essay drawing a poetic parallel between the author's teenage fascination with fashion design in Afghanistan and her later career in theoretical... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-universe-the-uncanny-and-fashion-7zdq92329 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Universe, the Uncanny, and Fashion | daily.dev og:description: A personal essay drawing a poetic parallel between the author's teenage fascination with fashion design in Afghanistan and her later career in theoretical... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-universe-the-uncanny-and-fashion-7zdq92329 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7Zdq92329.png og:image:alt: The Universe, the Uncanny, and Fashion og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Universe, the Uncanny, and Fashion **[Quantum Frontiers](https://daily.dev/sources/quantumfrontiers)** · 6 min read · 5 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A personal essay drawing a poetic parallel between the author's teenage fascination with fashion design in Afghanistan and her later career in theoretical physics, framing physicists as tailors who cut and stitch the fabric of spacetime, with a playful nod toward AdS/CFT and holography. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@zildeus** · 1 upvotes > nice break from the paranoia and AI slop ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Researcher Rodney Bartlett Publishes Book Exploring Quantum Physics and Cosmology](https://daily.dev/posts/researcher-rodney-bartlett-publishes-book-exploring-quantum-physics-and-cosmology-9vuegwuax) · The Quantum Insider · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Blending science with fiction in Baltimore](https://daily.dev/posts/blending-science-with-fiction-in-baltimore-sv7e12zvf) · Quantum Frontiers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#physics](https://daily.dev/tags/physics) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-universe-the-uncanny-and-fashion-7zdq92329) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Universe, the Uncanny, and Fashion","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-universe-the-uncanny-and-fashion-7zdq92329","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-universe-the-uncanny-and-fashion-7zdq92329"},"datePublished":"2026-08-31T21:32:15.288Z","dateModified":"2026-08-31T22:42:59.392Z","description":"A personal essay drawing a poetic parallel between the author's teenage fascination with fashion design in Afghanistan and her later career in theoretical...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/00378fabae692255ab95c699daf87d90?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/00378fabae692255ab95c699daf87d90?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Quantum Frontiers","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Quantum Frontiers","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/42c758b78aa54178a738ec0ac688157e","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/quantumfrontiers"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-universe-the-uncanny-and-fashion-7zdq92329","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"physics","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Quantum Frontiers","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/quantumfrontiers"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Universe, the Uncanny, and Fashion"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-universe-the-uncanny-and-fashion-7zdq92329","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"nice break from the paranoia and AI slop","datePublished":"2026-09-01T08:19:22.607Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/7Zdq92329#c-pK2awOHXz","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"ZilDeus","url":"https://daily.dev/zildeus","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/131702027?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```