The Glitch in the Gallery Thomas stood in front of his bathroom mirror, but he wasn't looking at his reflection. He was looking at the way the light hit the porcelain sink. There was a perfection to it—a mathematical precision in the caustic curves of the light—that felt less like physics and more like a high-end render.It had started with the "seams." A week ago, Thomas had noticed a bird in the park fly behind a tree and never emerge from the other side. Yesterday, he’d watched a raindrop hang suspended in mid-air for a fraction of a second too long