Family
Evening came and, true to her word, Rainbow Dash brought Scootaloo over to Sweet Apple Acres for dinner.
Family was not a word that the Apple clan threw around lightly. For an Apple, being family meant that you could always count on your fellow Apples for pretty much anything, full stop; it was a concept that the Apple clan instilled in their foals almost religiously. However, as strong as the familial bond was, the one thing that not everypony realized was that a pony did not need to have an apple on their flank to be considered family in the Apple house. When you sat down for dinner at the long rectangular table in the family room of the house on Sweet Apple Acres, you were family.
As Apple Bloom and Scootaloo chatted away about school and crusading, Rainbow Dash and Big Mac argued about Cloudsdale versus Appleloosa in this year’s hoofball playoffs, and Granny Smith alternated between both conversations. Applejack focused on keeping everypony’s glasses topped off and their plates full of salad and lasagna. In between bites of food and conversation, Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but notice the tangible sense of warmth in the room. There was no false politeness or, “Oh, I couldn’t possibly trouble you for another slice,” protest that pervaded most dinners Rainbow tried to avoid. Everyone around the table ate ‘til they were stuffed, all the while joking and playfully ribbing the rest of the assembled family. If asked, she would have to admit it was comforting, and something she wished she had more of.
“Okay Scoots, it’s getting late. We should get going,” Rainbow said, the remnants of apple pies strewn across the table.
“Aww, but Apple Bloom and I have more crusading to do,” Scootaloo protested.
“It’s a school night Scoots,” Rainbow said, still trying to refine her no-nonsense, do-what-I say-voice.
Clearly it needed more work because Scootaloo’s response was a well practiced, “Please Rainbow Dash?”
“Yeah, please Applejack? We can help each other study,” Apple Bloom added, both fillies adopting the wide eyed hopeful look, familiar to parents everywhere.
Under the weight of such oppressive cuteness, Applejack had no choice but to cave. “Ah what the hay. I suppose there ain’t no harm in it.”
“You sure you don’t mind?” asked Rainbow, giving her friend one last opportunity to back out.
“Nah, those crusaders are here so much sometimes I forget they don’t live here.”
Scootaloo accompanied Rainbow to the door, while the rest of the family set about clearing the table and doing the dishes.
“You gonna be cool sleeping here Squirt?”
“I will, but what about my bedtime story?”
Rainbow chuckled. “Good point Scoots. Okay, ready?” Scootaloo nodded happily. “Once upon a time there was an awesome pegasus named Scootaloo, and she had an awesome big sister who told her an awesome bedtime story. And then they all lived happily ever after. The end.”
“Good story.”
Rainbow sat down, picked up Scoots and nuzzled her across the face, eliciting a series of high pitched giggles from the orange filly as she squirmed playfully. “You’re being mushy,” Scootaloo teased.
In response to such a grievous insult Rainbow unceremoniously released Scootaloo from her grip. “Who’s mushy now Scoots?” she asked with a smirk as Scootaloo hit the ground.
Scootaloo stuck her tongue out. “Still you.” She paused for a second as an odd weight hung in the air. Scootaloo quickly ran across the short distance between the two and wrapped her forelegs around Rainbow’s leg. “I love you,” she whispered briefly before letting go and masking her sudden vulnerability with the more familiar bravado Rainbow was used to seeing.
Rainbow adopted a similar posture and leaned down so she could whisper in Scootaloo’s ear.
“Your secret’s safe with me. I love you too.”
Scootaloo giggled again, her mask of bravado now firmly re-attached, and ran off to start her sleepover.
As Rainbow left Sweet Apple Acres she was bothered by a nagging sensation. This was only the second time since Scootaloo came to stay with Rainbow that the sisters wouldn’t be under the same roof for the evening, but when Rainbow internally examined that aspect of the situation, she realised that she was fine with it. Scootaloo was with her friend Apple Bloom, under the watchful eye of the most trustworthy pony she knew. Hay, if there was some weird event where Scootaloo was in actual danger, one of the largest stallions she knew was only a few doors away.
But despite knowing that Scootaloo was unquestionably safe and sound, Rainbow was still forced to acknowledge a feeling of discomfort at being separated. She flew aimlessly in the general direction of her house, focusing on the nagging voice in the back of her mind. Try as she might, she couldn’t get the doctor’s words out of her head. she didn’t know much about medicine and she wasn’t sure how she would go about learning enough to understand Scootaloo’s condition anyway. However, just like when she started trying to solve Scootaloo’s flying problem, she did know where to find an almost limitless supply of knowledge.
“Hey Twi,” Rainbow said as she flew in through the window of the library, making Twilight consider whether she should add a screen to this month’s expense report.
Though obviously annoyed at Rainbow’s continued refusal to use the door, Twilight appeared almost giddy at the interruption. “Hi Rainbow. It’s actually good you’re here. I’ve made some progress and I think I’m getting close to an answer.” Twilight looked at Rainbow with a barely suppressed grin. “It’s a levitation spell!” she said triumphantly.
“What are you talking about?” Rainbow asked, both perplexed and annoyed.
“Do you know how levitation spells work?” Rainbow shook her head. “When you levitate something, you don’t actually generate enough force to lift it. Well, I suppose you could, but it would be hard, and for some of the big things I don’t even think Celestia could manage enough output-”
“Twi’.”
“Oh right, sorry. Like I was saying, to levitate something you encapsulate it in a bubble that cuts it off from outside forces, including gravity, then you can push around with minimal effort. It still has mass, but without gravity or friction acting on it, less force is required to move it. It’s actually pretty neat; you should read up on magical theory. I have some great books-”
“Twi’!” Rainbow repeated a little louder.
“Sorry. Anyway, I can’t be absolutely certain, but I’m willing to bet that when pegasi fly they cast a levitation spell on themselves. Instead of casting it outward on an object, you all cast it inward on yourselves. Then once you’re in the air you use your wings to push you around because you just have to overcome your mass with relation to air resistance, not your weight. It’s not a perfect analogy but it makes sense.”
Rainbow wasn’t entirely sure what the difference between mass and weight was, but she didn’t feel like another lecture from Twilight. “And this is a good thing?”
Twilight was about to go into an explanation on friction coefficients as they related to gravity but stopped as she noticed the pained expression on Rainbow’s face. “Are you okay?”
Rainbow let out a sigh. “I’m fine. It’s just… Scootaloo had a doctor’s visit, and the doc said she has some kind of mass near her wings. I guess Unicorns sometimes get them and that it interferes with their magic?”
Twilight subconsciously shifted into egghead mode, her instincts to disseminate information outweighing her concerns about being perceived as sympathetic. “It’s called neurofibroma. This actually seems like it’d be good news; surgery is supposed to be effective in treating the symptoms.”
“What if surgery isn’t an option?” Rainbow asked quietly, fearing the answer.
Twilight considered the question, mentally reviewing her mental notes about unicorns, medicine and magic. “Well, in unicorns magic therapy is supposed to strengthen the neural pathways enough to overcome the interference caused by the neoplasms,” Twilight said, with what she hoped was a reassuring smile.
Rainbow wasn’t entirely sure what Twilight said, but it was impossible for her to look at Twilight and not feel like she had to be able to come up with a solution. She was a princess who was the Element of Magic, so why wouldn’t she be able to fix this? “Can you help her?” Rainbow asked, desperation creeping into her voice.
Twilight’s smile diminished as the harsh reality of the situation began to reassert itself. Pegai had been instinctively using magic for centuries; it was entirely likely that actively controlling their magic was controlled by a completely different set of neural pathways than the ones they normally used, and that was assuming that pegasi magic was subject to the same biological rules as that of unicorns. “Maybe,” she said somewhat hesitantly. “I still don’t know a lot about pegasi magic. If it works similarly to unicorn magic, it would mean that some pegasi are naturally more gifted than others. Scootaloo might not be talented enough to cast as strong a spell as she needs. And if she does have a pegasus form of neurofibroma, that will make it that much harder to strengthen her magic. Can I tell Luna about this? It might help her focus on her research.”
Rainbow just shrugged. “Sure, whatever,” she said quietly.
Twilight closed the book she had open and walked around to the front of her desk. “How’s she doing Rainbow?”
“She can’t fly, Twilight! She’d be doing a lot better if you could fix that!” Rainbow snapped.
Used to Rainbow’s temper, Twilight let the remark roll off her. “That’s not what I asked. How is she?”
Rainbow glared at Twilight, before realizing that the pony in front of her was a friend and not some random pony trying to challenge her. “She’s good, I guess. We had an incident a few days ago, but she seems better now. She’s staying with the Apples tonight.”
“So you would say she’s happy?” Twilight gently prodded.
“I don’t know, I’m not a mind reader Twi.”
Twilight took Rainbow’s non-answer as a yes. “And if she’s happy, do you think that maybe you have something to do with that?”
Rainbow’s glare returned. “No, don’t try to turn this around. I promised her that I would get her flying. I’m sick of hearing ‘you’re already doing her a world of good.’”
“But you are!”
“Not if she can’t fly I’m not!”
“You can’t fix everything, Rainbow! No one can!”
Temporarily relieved from the burdens of parenthood, the doubt and anguish Rainbow had been struggling to keep down finally erupted. Every moment of fear and doubt she had felt seemed to hit her all at once. She didn’t realize just how much she had been holding in until she found herself tearing up. Of course, Rainbow Dash didn’t cry about this kind of thing. Probably Twilight’s fault for keeping the library so dusty. Stupid Twilight. Rainbow Dash did not get overwhelmed; she crashed into problems head first and then kicked them ‘til they regretted getting in her way. So why, after all the metaphorical flank kicking she had done was this problem still here? “Then what’s the point, Twi! Huh? Why even bother?”
Despite being still unsure about some of the conventions of friendship, one thing Twilight was sure of was that when a friend was crying, you gave her a hug and told her everything was going to be okay, so that’s what she did.
Rainbow took a few deep breaths and rubbed her eyes. “Thanks, Twi,” she said, shrugging her friend off of her. “So look, if there’s nothing else I should probably be getting home.”
“Are you sure? You don’t have to. You could stay here, and we could watch a movie or something.”
“You don’t have to do the caring friend thing Twi,” Rainbow said, forcing a smile. “I got a little… flustered for a second there. I’m okay. I just need to get some sleep.”
“Okay Rainbow, but if you ever do want to talk, or just hang out, you’ll come find me, right?”
Rainbow smiled, this time a little more genuine as she composed herself. “Sure thing Twi. Hey, thanks again.”
Rainbow flew home, happy to be back among familiar surroundings. The house felt a little emptier than she would like it to, but at least she didn’t have to put up with well meaning friends. Not that she didn’t like her well meaning friends; it was just good to be alone sometimes, Scootaloo managing to be the only exception. She was so preoccupied with thinking about her conversation with Twilight that she almost didn’t notice a note from Dr. Feather’s office in her mailbox. I guess when you work for the Wonderbolts fast service is part of the job. She eagerly tore open the envelope:
Rainbow Dash
I’ll be at the Wonderbolts Training Facility this week. I’d like to talk to you about Scootaloo’s test results.
Dr. Raven Feather.
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Excellent chapter as always, but I'm a little worried about those results. No good could possibly come of this.
Well the chapter was great, no one seemed OOC, but (this might just be me) I would prefer the chapters to be slightly longer. but hey as long as the story is entertaining, that's all that matters, keep up the good work!
Great chapter! Oh man the results can't be good. If they were good the letter would have said so, when people say that they want to talk it's never good! Please prove me wrong! Or at least make it not as bad as it could be!
Yeah, so feedback..
Well it's cool, nice how Rainbow Dash cried a moment of weakness is nice to see. Something bad.. Well I don't know anything to point out that's bad, I think you made a spelling error somewhere but I can't find it anymore..
So feedback, yeah, feedback is not my strongest point..
Great story!
Bye!
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5161356 Thanks
5161436 I guess that would depend on the what your definition of "as bad as they could be"...my by estimation theoretically the worst thing would be.."I was wrong, that mass is an inoperable metastasized tumor, Scootaloo will be dead within a month"...I'm not going to do that so ...you're welcome
5161417 Good news, the next chapter is shaping up to be on the longer end of my spectrum..(in the area of 4,500 words), that's about as long as my chapters get as I try to avoid cramming too many events into a single chapter and my descriptions can be a bit sparse..(it's a flaw I'm trying to work on)..after that I make no guarantees.
Scootaloo is a lucky filly, all these ponies are trying to help her. But if they can make a propeller lift Tank, surely they can make something for Scoots to get her off the ground! At that point she just has to rev her wings and she could fly!
Wait, the doc's name is Raven Feather? Isn't that usually a bad sign? Does anybody besides me get a sense of foreboding from that? And on a related note, who the heck names their kid Raven Feather? Did his parents just not love him and decide to name him after the one thing everybody knows is bad luck?
5161356 I agree, but Scoots and Rainbow Dash can overcome anything (within reason of course)!
This was a good chapter, but now for some reason I can't get the idea out of my head that you're going to go M. A. Larson on us and have that mass spontaneously grow into a new set of wings
(like, she'll have 4 wings and look all cool
).
not sure whether to be worried or eager about that letter
Even if you cut an object if from gravity, the force needed to move it wouldn't be insignificant, and cutting it if from friction wouldn't make a huge difference in a lot of applications. If you want to reduce the force needed, it would be better to reduce the mass ... I'm sorry about the physics lecture, I've been doing Statics problems for a good 5 hours today. I'll probably give more feedback when i can think of things besides forces
edit: this pretty much applies only to heavy objects. in a light object this is negligible.
5161356
Rarely is if they wish to have a face to face chat.
I just loved the warm and fuzzy feeling you impart during the entire Apple family scene. <3
Nice to see Scootaloo feeling comfortable with spending the night elsewhere by this point.
Rainbow Dash's way of dealing with problems feels so natural to her, as does her little breakdown when her tactics aren't working at all. I don't think she doesn't realize how happy Scoot's is, but she still feels like she's failing her due to not getting the flying problem sorted. Seems to fit rather well with Dash's personality, all or nothing, 2nd place is the just the first loser. xD
Keep up the good work.
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Hey, jxj, fancy meeting you here. ^^
Could you explain this? Because I do not think you are correct here, but I'm open to being corrected. The most obvious example is to look at a spacestation, without gravity (or rather, lower gravity) it's trivial to move things around, isnt it?
No gravity, no weight, right?
I think the only issue might be momentum, but I'm not sure how hard it would be to change the direction of a moving, weightless object in a vaccum. (But if Astroid impact movie are any indication, apparently pretty hard? Though I remember there was this real world project to use lasers to alter directions of astroids by creating a bit of steam on one side, so it may actually be simple. I have no idea.)
The only application I can think of, is that Pegasi wings must be exempted from this portion of the spell, or they are completely unable to generate lift? (or any kind of steering/moving around for that matter.)
I guess it also plays into moving fast without air resistance, though I think we see direct evidence against this being part of pegasi flight when RD does her rainboom, if im not mistaken.
Excellent chapter,but im worried pleasssssssssssse say your not going down the twidash route theres soooooo many fics doing twidash!! and really i hate
But 
thats good. Nice you make rainbow dash lonely without scoots wonder if scoots feels the same!
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nice to see you here to. Now on to the physics. Technically the space station is experiencing gravity, it's constantly falling towards the earth but it's moving so fast forward that it always misses, if that makes sense. you are correct that without gravity, there is no weight. However forces and momentum are linked to mass, not weight. say our unicorn is lifting a 10 kg weight. A force is equal to an objects mass times its acceleration, in this case the force due to gravity is 9.8 N. So cutting it off from gravity gets rid of this force, however if you actually want to move the object you need to apply a force to it. For example if the unicorn wants to start moving the object to the left with an acceleration of 2 m/s^2, a force of 20 N needs to be applied to get the object to move, and again to stop it. It's a bit more complicated than that, but i think you get the general idea. When I was talking about friction, i was talking about unicorn telekinesis. your friction felt on, say the water tower Twilight lifted is nothing compared to actually moving it. As for moving the asteroid, it's difficult technology wise, but not physics wise. since there is so much room in space you don't have to change the trajectory much (over 10,000,000 miles a .1 degree change results in a 17,453 mile change) and you can get away with a really low acceleration. I hope that clears everything up, if you still have questions don't hesitate to ask.
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I don't think I quite understand it.
If you have a weightless, frictionless object floating in mid air. Wouldn't even the slightest possible tap cause it to start moving in the opposite direction at the appropriate speed until it was stopped?
So you wouldn't need all that much force to move it?
I guess I don't quite grasp how it's mass plays into this. Assuming the object was not already moving at high speeds. Since I do understand that you may need a significant amount of force to stop an already moving massive object.
5164654
abandon the idea of weight, all physics equations use mass, which isn't affected by gravity. If weight is involved, it as written as a force involving acceleration due to gravity. One thing to keep in mind is that the heavier the object, the more this applies (i guess i should have been more clear in my original post, i was pretty tired when i wrote it). you're right without gravity and friction a slight tap would cause the object to move and it wouldn't stop. But large object has a lot of inertia, which means you need a large force to significantly change the velocity. For example if you tap the International space station with a force of 1 N with a contact time of 1 millisecond, you have a change in velocity of 0.00000000235 m/s. In order to accelerate the Space station from standstill to walking speed you would need to generate 838.91 kN for a time of 1 second to get it to that velocity. Using our tap force of 1 N, it would take close to 10 days to bring it to a walking speed. however if you significantly reduce the mass to say, 1 kg, you only need 9.8 N to keep it floating and 2 Newtons for a time of 1 second to bring it to walking speed. I guess what i'm trying to say is that with large objects a small force won't change velocity much
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Alright, I'm abandoning the idea of weight. Just thinking in terms of Mass. So 'heavier' would mean objects with more mass, yes?
Intertia, I think that might have been the part of the equation that I was missing. I wasn't aware that was a thing, so I kept being confused as to why an object would resist moving.
Since I am an uneducated buffoon, I'm reading wikipedia to get some kind of grasp on this.
It states: "Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion, including changes to its speed and direction. It is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at constant velocity." Which seems to fit with what you are saying so I think I'm on the right page now, thanks.
Since we are on this line of reasoning though. If I understand this correctly, you are saying that even if the mass is no longer affected by gravity of any sort, it is still effected by Inertia. A bit further on in the wiki I found the following: "No physical difference has been found between gravitational and inertial mass in a given inertial frame." Which upon innitially reading it sounded like it would mean that if no force of gravity existed there would be no gravitational mass, and thus no inertial mass as they are the same thing. But, upon looking a little closer, I now believe they are in fact not the same thing, but completely different properties that merely coincide in measurement results?
As a final note: I think I can see why you said messing with an objects mass is more effective for levitation than messing with gravity now.
5164842
You pretty much have it, a "heavier" object is one that has more mass. Its a lot easier to do math with mass because weight actually changes a lot on earth, you would weigh less on mount Everest than the coast because gravity is dependent on how far away you are from the center of the object. Gravitational and inertial mass will be the same for all objects, but gravitational mass is how mass affects gravity (ie what is the force of gravity between two objects) while inertial mass is what you use for kinetics (what we are dealing with for telekinesis). I'm sorry i couldn't explain it to well, i'm used to being able to throw math and physics at people until they understand. People with a heavy math and science back ground will get it, and pretty much no one else will.
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But even if they did that, she still wouldn't technically be flying under her own power, which I doubt would be good enough for her.
I'm guessing Scootaloo's situation will be somewhere in the middle, i.e. the growth is benign, but there's no way to treat it. There's surgery, but it's both risky and expensive.
5165277 At least she wouldn't be stuck on the ground. It's better than nothing and would possibly help her exercise channeling magic to her wings since she would only have to worry about propulsion instead of lift as well.
Ok, thoughts from a non sleep deprived and physics addled mind. It's good to see the flipside of Rainbow taking in Scootaloo. In most fics I see, Rainbow is either able to provide everything, or she doesn't have a response to not being able to. It was good to see her break down a bit.
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5164842 That was an interesting physics lecture/discussion. I originally was okay with the idea that maigc was just force, but when one considers that Twilight was able to lift a water tower, filled with water, the idea that she can generate enough energy to do that much work seems doubtful, even in a world of magical talking ponies. I suppose we don't know what the force of gravity is in Equestria so that may change some things. I'm not sure how magic could change the mass of an object if we hold true to the idea that matter cannot be created or destroyed. We've seen things levitated and they don't appear to undergo any physical changes, and living creatures can be levitated without any effects so that adds another layer of doubt. So yeah I don't really have any answers other than, magical talking ponies.
I'm still loving this fic. You have done such a great job with characterization. :)
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I sort of try not to give away spoilers in the comments but... I had never considered the four wing idea, and while I thing it's intresting it won't be happening here.
Also I'm not doing twidash or any shipping in this fic so no worries there. But can I ask what made you think I was? I think i stayed away from any language that made it seem like either Twilight or Rainbow considered the other as anything more than friends. And I agree that twidash is overdone.
5162059 I think a version of this discussion was had on a previous chapter. No wearable solutions..because reasons. (It kinda ruins my arc if Scootaloo can just cruise around in a harness, though if it makes you feel better you can imagine that she wants to fly under her own power because that's what pegasi do)
5165931 Thanks
5165962 Still think it should be at least attempted just to prove it can be done and works. If nothing else, it would be handy to have on hand for places like Cloudsdale if visitor don't want to rely on the cloud walking spell. And if Scootaloo tested it out, Twilight could patent it in her name and have her set for life.
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calculating gravity in equestria wouldn't actually be to difficult. All you need to do is take a scene with an object in free fall (preferably when it just starts moving so air resistance is minimal), plot the positions and times. From there you can model the object's position as a function of time and use calculus to get the acceleration. Although I'm willing to bet they go for what looks good and it isn't actually mathematically consistent. One thing to keep in mind when doing physics analysis is that in everyday use energy, work and force are pretty much interchangeable, but each one has a distinct definition that may not coincide with the everyday definition. For example work is force times distance. When Twilight is holding the water tower and it isn't moving no work is performed and no energy is exerted. As for the mechanism through which this takes place, at some point the answer has to be magic it is literally the only answer (if it wasn't it wouldn't be magic).
Oh hey look, another cliff to hang off. (joking, i love it)
I'm too tired to debate magics and equestrian gravity, so I'm just gonna sit over here and adore you and the work you do
5165923
Sorry for hijacking your comment section a little. xD
Actually, based on what jxj just taught me, I have a suggestion on this.
To move an object there are two important factors which are determined by mass.
Gravitational Mass = the tendency of the object to hug the ground. ;3
Inertia Mass = the object's resistance to change in it's state of motion.
Your current explaination has the following:
Leviation spells remove the object from the effect of Gravity, and Friction.
Since jxj pointed out that friction is negligable, I guess you could just change "friction" to "Inertia", and it would be perfect?
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No you did a great job explaining. I looked for this online too and a lot of it was indeed people throwing around math which I could not make any sense of. Thanks to you putting in the effort I was able to make much more sense of the whole thing, even if I am sure that much of my understanding is probably wrong, it's at the very least a lot less wrong than it was before you explained it. So thanks for that. :D
I don't understand relativity, but I understand the relativity of wrong. ^.~
5165937 No offence to the people that like twidash but ye its overdone like 10/10 overdone but what made me think of twidash was the comforting every twidash ive seen start off with comforting rainbow dash she then starts to date then it goes from there. But what i dint notice was that You said She'd
never 100% related to Dash so sorry...? Anyway great story keep writing 10/10 wouldnt clop... cause thats just weird
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thanks! I think 5165923 was wondering what mechanism magic would use to change mass. Matter can absolutely created and destroyed, energy can't. I think at this point we have to say magic is how magic can change mass. There isn't really another way. You can delay that by bringing in quantum mechanics (which might as well be magic), but at some point the answer is just magic.
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I agree, and on that note, this seems all kinds of relevant:
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haha, nice. Still I can't help it. It actually turns out that quantum mechanics is a really good explanation for how magic happens. It's basically the bridge between the magic cause and the physical effect. I feel bad about taking over the coment thread, go ahead and pm me if you want to continue the conversation.
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5169870 So I don't really feel like rewriting anything, and similar to my statement about playing fast and loose with medicine because you shouldn't read mlp fan fic for the medicine, I'm going to go ahead and add physics into that. Pegasi fly because of magic...end of explanation. If it helps you can imagine that Twilight is wrong about how magic works. I still maintain that it's hard to imagine being able to levitate a living thing, change its mass, change it back when you let go of it and have that thing be perfectly okay...so yeah...magic. But I did enjoy the debate.
5169962
Never!
I'll just accept that this is how magic works in the story.
5169962
i actually wasn't trying to convince you to re write anything, i was just talking about theoretical magical physics. Initially I thought my way was better, but upon a lot of further thought, it seems to depend on the situation a lot. There are times when i would want no gravity and the same (or even more) mass, and there are times when it would be drastically better to lower the mass, and there are times when either of those are overkill. Do you really need to suspend gravity or mass when you're lifting a book? You may not want to do either to living things, you may only be able to use a pure telekinetic force on a living organism without harming it. There isn't really a wrong or right answer for high level telekinesis. I completely get that it's hard to understand how exactly that would work. What i'm using to explain it is basically when science took a couple hits of lsd
I want great test results to feel good about scootaloo.
We need bad test results to make the story more interesting.
Why must you do this to my brain?
Ah
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Rainbow adopted a similar posture and leaned down so she could whisper in Scootaloo’s ear. “Your secret’s safe with me. I love you too.”
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