Here are some links to background information used in conceiving the functioning and processes used in imagining Transcendence.

Fusion Power:

The Arcielle is powered by Fusion reactors creating the energy required for a 100 year voyage. Here is a link to one of the resouces about how too capture fusion in a bottle.

This is a link about how Ginger’s skin could be created:

https://www.physics-astronomy.org/2019/12/scientists-create-new-kind-of.html

Nanobots:

This following link is to a research study showing how using nanoparticles, you can alter individual human genes. This led to the idea about the evolution of the character Jonathan Cross.

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-crispr-carrying-nanoparticles-genome.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=techxplore.com&utm_term=68736&utm_content=2153482

Space Time and Reality: Quantum Physics

Gravitational Waves:

These waves are ripples in space and time, first posited by Einstein. They are used as a communication vehicle by our protagonists.

Is Alien life weirder than we imagine? Who is out there?

This is a very interesting discussion of what kind of life is out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT9GqvgipOQ