Two bits of news:
I will be joining a panel on "Physical Laws of a Novel Dimension" organised by Needling Haystacks at HarmonyCon today. (Just by video link.) If anyone is in Dallas, come along at 11am.
The first particle physics themed story I have commissioned will be published soon. Stay tuned.
Just to flag two non-pony things I am doing this month:
That time of year again. When ponies dress up in Spooktacular costumes for their Nightmare Night fun, and particle physicists thrill everyone with tales of ghost particles and the dark side of the universe.
It's less than two days until we get to see the New Generation. But there is something else exciting before that. Tomorrow I am hosting a livestream: COLLIDE! Why particle physics at Oxford matters. Here's a video invitation:
And the livestream link:
Fancy writing a short story for 30$ per 1k and know your way around physics?
This has to be one of the coolest 'contests' so far.
Go have a look.
for science communication!
Any fans of Daring Do and the Inexplicable Artifact want to learn more about the mysterious ancient hieroglyphs that puzzled Daring Do and Twilight Sparkle in that story?
Last week turned out much more exciting than expected. We got the first dose of Tell Your Tale on Thursday, which was very nice, but not quite the same level of awesomeness as the announcement from Fermilab on Friday that they’ve measured the mass of the W boson and it doesn’t fit the theory.
Let’s tell this tale.
A short crossover between The Isle of Scaly and A hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory based on plasma-wakefield and radio-frequency acceleration.
Blaize lifted her wings and stared at Sunny Starscout.
“Why are you here?”
“It’s… to help,” said Sunny
Sunny Side Up is an invitation for me to write a sequel to Izzy explains how to build a particle accelerator. Here we go…
July is traditionally the silly season, when a lack of serious news forces media outlets to report UFO sightings and such like.
Apologies for not posting anything for a couple of weeks. I am sure you are all deeply missing my thrilling commentary on science and global politics. I have been rather tied up with science festival stuff for the last week. It’s amazing how much time organising even small events can take, but it’s always nice when young kids tell you that you're cool, and I got to play with some new science toys, including the LHC micro Lego model.
Continuing my discussion of the particle physics in Daring Do and the Inexplicable Artifact. If you haven’t read the story yet, do so now.
GMBlackjack has now published a pony particle physics story I commissioned. Check out Daring Do and the Inexplicable Artifact. An A.K. Yearling adventure in which our pegasus hero discovers a mysterious object that appears to be shooting some sort of beam, but while it is evidently drawing a lot of power, it appears to have no effect whatsoever on anything in its path. Daring enlists the help of
Here’s an appropriately cute short description of the T2K particle physics experiment in Japan, which creates a beam of neutrinos at the accelerator complex at Tokai, and sends it 295km through the Earth to a detector at Kamioka, in order to study the weirdness of neutrino oscillations.
According to her temporary science teacher “...Yona has taken to the subject like a yak to smashing!”
How are you all coping at the moment?
Here in England, I am stuck at home, allowed out once a day for exercise. It has been a confusing past few weeks. Things I had been planning for months were abruptly cancelled, and I then had to quickly make new plans. I am fortunate that I have a place to live and have a job. I have been trying to assist some others unfairly threatened with redundancy, which is rather stressful, much more for them than me.
Many years ago, I was attending a science communication lecture, in which the lecturer threw a hypothetical challenge to the class: to write an article on the Higgs Boson for the Daily Sun, the notorious, best-selling British tabloid, known for snappy headlines, a lack of political correctness, and the dubious veracity of its articles.
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