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Particle Physics and Pony Fiction Experimentalist

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  • 3 weeks
    An epic pony particle physics post

    It’s time for me to properly introduce a future particle physics experiment, which I have been working on for the past two news for a steadily increasing fraction of my time. It’s primarily a US project, but like everything we do in particle physics, it’s a global collaboration, and now has sufficiently secure British funding that I will probably be able keep doing this one for some more years,

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  • 19 weeks
    Ramblings about 2024, hitchhikers, travel writing, and a return to Italy

    Despite starting this year with a new story which ran to over 12,000 words, I’ve not been so active writing in 2024. It feels like this blog is fizzling out like G5. We will see if I manage to turn that around in 2025. This year has been disappointing in some ways. Not least how G5 ended. The New Generation started with so much potential, but we are now left in a strange sort of limbo. We know

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  • 27 weeks
    On the weirdness of American politics

    This year, the UK held a general election on the day that the US celebrates the anniversary of independence, which lead a few Labour supporters to suggest, in jest, that henceforth Britain should also celebrate it, having delivered independence from Conservative rule.

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  • 38 weeks
    Infinite Imponability Drive – Random notes: Aliens

    Before creating Hitch-Hikers, Douglas Adams had worked as a script writer for Doctor Who. He explained that his new universe provided an outlet for plot ideas that had been rejected by Doctor Who editors for being too silly. He also reacted against the core character of the Doctor. As Who fans know, the Doctor is a hero who, upon learning that the Earth is to be destroyed to

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  • 44 weeks
    A Short History of British Prime Ministers and My Little Ponies

    Where was I before I popped out to lunch three months ago? Pondering about imponability… That is still going on. But, right now, I am distracted by British political history as we now have a general election, which looks likely to be of historic significance.

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Aug
12th
2017

The Sun, the Moon, and Some Family History (with a picture of seaponies) · 9:38pm Aug 12th, 2017

New Particle Gadgeteering blog post: The Sun, the Moon, and Some Family History, which my long-term readers may notice is a recycled Fimfiction post with pony references removed.

I originally planned this week to write a post presenting my pony fanfiction to the science outreach community. However when I started writing I realised this one would take a bit longer to write, as explaining the intricacies of our little literary world to those outsiders with only a vague concept of what fanfiction is will require a bit more thought.

And I am busy packing for my trip to the US.

Comments ( 3 )

Where're you going for the eclipse?

I'm planning to head down to Salem, OR - bad traffic, especially since the only room available for <$500 was outside the totality band, but I hear it'll be worth it.

South Carolina. Planning to meet up with Needling Haystacks. Weather forecast is not too encouraging, but hey - it will be an experience whatever.

4632820 Hope the weather turns out fine!

(My parents are going to be in South Carolina too, so I'm definitely hoping.)

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