Zero Dimensional Space – Episode 07: The Making of the Meditation Core

From the very beginning of writing this story, I was fascinated by the idea of engineering silence—what it would mean to construct a chamber so quiet, so perfectly insulated, that a human mind might begin to touch something truly unknown. This is the evolution of the Meditation Core as seen through Lata’s eyes. From cluttered labs in Navi Mumbai to the quiet of deep space, here is how the impossible became real.

Manoj K.

Early Prototype — GAISE HQ, Navi Mumbai

The first years at GAISE HQ.

We’re still in the west wing lab—cramped, humid, full of the noise of fans and failing power supplies. The first shell stands awkwardly on a rolling cart. Its hexagonal plates are uneven, mismatched. Some are printed with cheap composite filament, others are translucent because we ran out of shielding material halfway through the print.

The Casimir sensors are already embedded, though they barely register anything. Too much background interference, too much ambient vibration. And yet… the core is here. No longer a simulation. No longer a paper. It sits under harsh fluorescent lights, cables coiled around its base like vines. I can see it—what it could become. The beginnings of a vessel for stillness.

We don’t have funding for a second prototype. Not yet. But this one will be enough.

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Section 2: System Integration — GAISE HQ, Navi Mumbai

A1 has been found. The Meditation Core has progressed, and finally testing has begun.

We’ve moved the operation to the north block. It’s quieter here. The floor’s clean. The AC doesn’t cut out. In front of us now are all three shells, standing apart like strange monoliths. The outer one—reflective, light-catching—is already structurally complete. The middle shell, dense and black, sits on a vibration isolation bed. And the innermost one is my favorite: transparent hexagonal cells, each filled with tuned water, catching the light like trapped sunlight.

None of them are enclosed yet. We’re still running diagnostics. But they fit, dimensionally, one inside the other. When I visualize it, it looks like a chrysalis around a silence.

Background fluctuation drops every time we run a sync cycle. It’s happening. It’s subtle, but it’s measurable. And when I stand between the shells and speak, even my own voice feels… less certain. Like it doesn’t fully belong here.

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Section 3: Final Flight Model — Meditation Module, Anarva (in transit)

Installed in the Meditation Core Module of the Anarva Central Ring

I’m watching the feed from the Anarva now. The signal lag is nearly 1.5 seconds each way. Even light, it seems, takes a moment to find its way through this much distance and insulation.

The core sits sealed inside the meditation module. I can’t see inside it, not with video—radio signals can’t penetrate the innermost shell. But the external sensors are active. The three shells are now fully integrated. The outer layer hums faintly, but the internal environment is dead silent. Naren is inside, meditating.

Eleven minutes into the session, the instruments register it—complete neutralization of background quantum fluctuations within a 1.89-kilometer radius. Not a theoretical suppression. A true zero. The data stabilizes and holds.

It’s strange watching it from here, across that silence, across that distance. But it’s real. We’ve reached the threshold. A human being, in deep meditation, has erased the quantum noise of space around him. That ZQF bubble is the gateway.

This is no longer about design. Or faith. Or prototypes. This is a functioning Meditation Core. And it works.

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Thanks for reading. I’ve poured years of thought, love, and late-night rewrites into Zero Dimensional Space, and I can’t wait to share the full story with you. The book releases in early August 2025, and I’m truly excited (and a little nervous!) to send it out into the world.

Hope you’ll be there when it launches.

Manoj K.