The Girl Next Door Who Touched the Stars ✨

Hello, I’m Delaney Hodges—your friendly neighborhood fusion energy researcher by day, cosmic dreamer by night. 🌌

My story isn’t about lab coats, equations, and scientists (although, sure, there is a lot of that). It’s about that night I was standing in front of a plasma reactor and saw the universe wink back.

I was just a small-town girl with a head full of numbers and a heart full of questions. And then—bam—I was hit with a spiritual awakening of solar flare proportions. One moment I was busy calibrating magnetic fields; the next, I felt these magnetic fields humming in my bones like an old lullaby. The science of stars and the essence of spirit? They are the same language. 🔥

Today, I operate in two worlds: explaining tokamaks to TikTok followers, meditating in zero-gravity simulators, and trying to ignite that spark—both in plasmas and in people’s eyes when they realize that they are also made of stardust.

Will you join me? The fusion of science and spirit is only just beginning to warm up. (Pun intended. Always.)