Particle Gadgeteering · 11:11pm Jul 15th, 2017
For anyone interested in my real world adventures and general science stuff, I have now created a non-pony blog. Check out https://particlegadgeteering.wordpress.com/
The main reason I’m doing this is that I need someplace I can showcase some of my science writing to the wider world. While I have written lots of stuff that I’m quite proud of on Fimfiction, the trouble is when I show it to other writers and science communicators, I get a lot of blank faces or odd questions about what a rainbow dash is. I expect anyone else who has tried to used their Fimfiction writing to further wider ambitions will understand.
I am hoping to do some more professional SciComm stuff in the future. I sent my Underground Science book proposal to some agents earlier this year. None of them took it in the end, but I did get enough detailed and encouraging feedback to give me the confidence that if I don’t find a publisher for this idea, there is a very good chance they would go for another. There are other opportunities: public talks, science festival stalls and such like. My boss has kindly let me spend 30% of my time on particle physics outreach, but this does mean I need to have something I can show him that isn’t a set of pony stories.
I'm not expecting to attract many followers for a while, but it would be nice to have a few readers, so please take a look and consider commenting / liking / sharing on social media if any of it appeals to you.
I don’t plan to quit Fimfiction anytime soon. It’s too much fun here.
If youre going into particle physics, you need more Orangutan.
If black holes are boson Stars, why cant the bosuns be gravitons?
I think you should put more effort into convincing him/them of your "pony science". I haven't read much of it yet, but what I did read works very well for giving science examples via ponies/Equestria.
Blank faces or odd questions should never stop you. If you have something of which you know it's promising, keep talking and get it across to people.
Following!
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I'm already into particle physics. I will see if I can incorporate some orangutan into future blog post.
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I am hoping this new blog will give me a forum to try to explain it. A lot of people do seem interested in what I'm doing, but they don't really understand it as they see My Little Pony as a tacky toy from the 1980s rather than a contemporary pop culture phenomenon. And they don't get what fan fiction is. Explaining fundamental physics to children is easy compared to explaining pop culture to senior professors.
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Thanks
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Something else to consider about particle physics, given quarks are (5,3) turing machines.. what do you program them in. OOk is second.
Watch out for the lame coder joke
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Hence why I said it's important to find a way to get it across. The dreadful times of the franchise are over since 2010, it's a serious show/comic/book series now, and especially from senior professors, who claim to be educated, I would simply expect to understand this.
Their horizons need to be broadened.
Definitely looking forward to more. I hope you'll do a fimfic post to let us know when you've done a post over there, as I can't be the only one who's bad for checking other sites.