New story just submitted: Invisible Shades of Rainbow. This is a sequel to my first story The Art of Rainbow Engineering (you don’t need to read that one first - unless you want to), continuing the exploration of the physics of light. I have learned a lot about writing since I wrote that one, but I still quite like it, and

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It's been a crazy week of travelling for me. Last weekend I was camping in a field in Wales at a wedding party, which was great fun, even though it rained all night and my tent leaked. I then went out to Seattle for a week of particle physics stuff, also fun, getting home late last night after an exhausting overnight flight via Chicago. Problem with flying long-haul at this time of year—the only affordable options involve long and awkward stopovers.

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Wow has it really been three weeks since I last did a blog post?

First news this week: Quillo Manar did a rather nice reading of The Art of Eclipse Engineering on YouTube, so you can now enjoy listening to this short story accompanied by appropriate music and pictures of eclipses. You don’t need to wear goggles.

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Dear Rainbow Fans

My new Rainbow Dash story is now out:

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In his book Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins challenges the idea that a scientific understanding of natural phenomena somehow lessens their beauty and the sense of awe that they inspire, and instead argues that the exact opposite is true. The title is from a quotation by Keats, who said, maybe in jest, that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by 'reducing it to the prismatic colours'. (Incidentally Unweaving the Rainboom was my working title for

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Nice to see a good level of interest in my latest work, Rock Farms and Nuclear Reactors. Please take a look if you haven't already done so. In this story Pinkie Pie teaches Twilight Sparkle some basic nuclear physics. This is my third science themed pony story, following The Art of Rainbow Engineering, and

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I just added a short appendix to The Art of Rainbow Engineering giving a bit more detail on the science. I did intend to do this when I first wrote the story, but never finished it, as doing diagrams is rather tedious.

Now if anyone in the university asks why I spend so much time on fimfiction, I can say it's a public education project.

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