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Pineta


Particle Physics and Pony Fiction Experimentalist

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  • 7 weeks
    Eclipse 2024

    Best of luck to everyone chasing the solar eclipse tomorrow. I hope the weather behaves. If you are close to the line of totality, it is definitely worth making the effort to get there. I blogged about how awesome it was back in 2017 (see: Pre-Eclipse Post, Post-Eclipse

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  • 15 weeks
    End of the Universe

    I am working to finish Infinite Imponability Drive as soon as I can. Unfortunately the last two weeks have been so crazy that it’s been hard to set aside more than a few hours to do any writing…

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  • 18 weeks
    Imponable Update

    Work on Infinite Imponability Drive continues. I aim to get another chapter up by next weekend. Thank you to everyone who left comments. Sorry I have not been very responsive. I got sidetracked for the last two weeks preparing a talk for the ATOM society on Particle Detectors for the LHC and Beyond, which took rather more of my time than I

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  • 19 weeks
    Imponable Interlude

    Everything is beautiful now that we have our first rainbow of the season.

    What is life? Is it nothing more than the endless search for a cutie mark? And what is a cutie mark but a constant reminder that we're all only one bugbear attack away from oblivion?

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  • 21 weeks
    Quantum Decoherence

    Happy end-of-2023 everyone.

    I just posted a new story.

    EInfinite Imponability Drive
    In an infinitely improbable set of events, Twilight Sparkle, Sunny Starscout, and other ponies of all generations meet at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
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    This is one of the craziest things that I have ever tried to write and is a consequence of me having rather more unstructured free time than usual for the last week.

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Aug
20th
2017

Studying an Eclipse from Deep Underground (with a picture of two princesses investigating plasma physics) · 8:45pm Aug 20th, 2017

New Particle Physics Gadgeteering post: Studying an Eclipse from Deep Underground, which might look like a contrived attempt to attach an eclipse tag to an underground science story, but this is a true report of what I was doing during the 2006 solar eclipse.

Comments ( 4 )

Already saw the post on your other blog, and it's fascinating! Hope they get some better results this time!

Meanwhile in the magical land of Equestria... I wonder, can you research plasma physics with Celestia's mane? It does look rather similar to the plasma in that picture...

> “…magnetic nose…”

I wish that I could smell magnetic fields. Maybe, you mean “magnetic noise”.

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Thanks. Celestia's mane as plasma is an intriguing idea. It does raise a lot of interesting questions, such as what shampoo she uses.

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Thanks. This is the result of writing blog posts when jet-lagged. (Apparently pigeons can smell magnetic fields).

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> > > “’…magnetic nose…’”

> > “’I wish that I could smell magnetic fields. Maybe, you mean “magnetic noise”.’”

> “Thanks. This is the result of writing blog posts when jet-lagged. (Apparently pigeons can smell magnetic fields).”

Pigeons see magnetic fields. They have photoactive chemicals for sensing magnetic fields, but they only work under light.

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