Particle Gadgeteering

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.

Comments

[Booster Spice]

If youre going into particle physics, you need more Orangutan.

If black holes are boson Stars, why cant the bosuns be gravitons?

[Fluttercheer]

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.

[iisaw]

Following!

[Pineta]

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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

[Booster Spice]

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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

[Fluttercheer]

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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.

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.

[Themaskedferret]

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.