Jul
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You Know You're Taking Ponies Too Seriously When… · 4:41am Jul 22nd, 2014
Howdy, y'all.
As part of the research I'm doing for a story, I've managed to learn that the diameter of Equestria's sun is 3524.12681389 kilometers, and its surface temperature could be as low as 817.8905816701579 Kelvin. Also, I've calculated Equestria's solar constant to be 533,173.777315 watts per meters squared, and I'm currently working to discover whether the speed of light is faster in Equestria or not. Estimations at this juncture lead me to think that the speed of light is the same—or possibly 2% faster—but I have to double check my calculations. All seven pages of them.
Fascinating, huh?
Please send help.
Keep on keeping on,
—Argon
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ArgonMatrix · 339 views
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Welcome to the cabal of writers obsessed with scientific accuracy. Your membership card and a key to the laboratory will be put in the mail tomorrow morning.
There's literally no way you can claim that many significant figures. You're allowed to just say 533 kilowatt, for example. The fractions of a watt don't matter on that scale, and they'd be beyond what we have the data to measure even if we thought it did.
If you hit orbital mechanics, you have gone too far.
2305869 Also, are you sure you found a result in the hundreds of kilowatts per square meter range? That's kinda... melty.
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Yeah, that's one number I'm really not too sure of. I think I did something wonky early in my calculations that screwed things up, and I'll have to rework a lot of things if I want the most accurate results.
Or I could just, y'know, write the damn story. I'm just going to ridiculous lengths because I like math and physics.
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You basically figured out that Celestia's sun is basically a giant flying lamp in low earth orbit. It is small and cool-ish. Given a heat protection spell, a pony could walk around it without much difficulty, and look down (up?) at an Equestria that dominates the sky it lights.
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Pretty much. In Twilight's Kingdom Part 2, Twilight moves the sun through the sky and we see it move as she's using the spell to make it move without any noticeable delay. If the speed of light is constant between Earth and Equestria, logically that must mean their sun is much closer to Equestria than our sun is to us, since light takes over 8 minutes to reach us from the sun. But our suns have the same apparent size, so Equestria's sun must be much smaller and colder than ours.
That's my theory, at any rate.
2305947 roll with it. If your muse isn't already dragging off to work, then I have a few tactical inspiration notes along this line of reasoning, but it sounds to me like you're at the "write it already" phase