Particle Physics and Pony Fiction Experimentalist
No star lives forever. Starlight Glimmer knows this. Daybreaker haunts her dreams with visions of the fate that awaits Princess Celestia after surrendering power to Twilight. Can Starlight use her knowledge of astrophysics to defeat her nightmare and prevent Equestria being consumed by a chasm of infinite darkness?
Written to mark the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez for their work on black holes.
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There is something beautiful about having a dream battle with a monster fought by completely irrelevant but still solid arguments. My dreams aren't nearly so cooperative.
N'filgsran trudged through the dream ether, making slow progress with his/her/its knotted tentacles waving behind in the etheric breeze and the entrance to its void sphincter clogged with degenerate cupcake residue. Haunting Dinky's nightmares had become a living hell ever since her adoptive father had started training her in the art of Droz-fu and Pinkie Pie had added her expertise in etheric baking to provide more dream cupcakes in a nightmare that one Old One could possibly consume in the lifetime of the universe. At least its next night's task would be more pleasurable. Starlight Glimmer had a magnificent malefic mind, filled with dark places that provided a wealth of nightmare fuel.
Although it could see a second figure trudging through the ether in its direction, looking just as beaten as N'filgsran.
"Daybreaker," it said once the beautiful creature was within communication range. Daybreaker was the only creature in the realm who did not cringe away at the shrill sounds of a thousand screaming souls being consumed in agony, although she did not look up at the sound of its voice either. "Is there something wrong?" it asked, although it had to add, "You look very attractive tonight. I love what you've done with your nebula."
Assuming Celestia can eat 100g of cake per second, how long would it take her to reach the Chandrasekhar limit?
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Don't underestimate its gravity.
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The dream realm is a wonderful arena to write a story where you don't have to be bound by silly rules about things having to make overall sense and you can just let the arguments follow whatever logic seems to best fit at the time.
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I'm now thinking of a story to explain the concept of spaghettification involving Pinkie Pie and N'filgsran.
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Well, if you are assuming an constant rate of consumption, it would be longer than the lifetime of the universe. But that's neglecting the relativistic effects that come into play in the dream realm.
Actually, the dream walking is Lunas cutie mark talent. She can't pass it to someone else because it's a part of her.
On a side note, will someone please explain to me (again…) the difference between novae and supernovae, and any other types (hypernovae? quark-novae?)
...Did Daybreaker just explode twice? Can ponies do that?
Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I can understand all of that physics stuff and I'm not even in college yet?!
Starlight should have pointed out that by turning into a black hole, Celestia would be super-evil...and also super FAT.
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In the old days, they were all novae - new stars, which astronomers noted, but didn't know why they appeared, only that they were fixed, unlike comets. In the twentieth century researchers put together a classification system, where the brightest ones were supernovae, which were divided into type 1 and 2 (with further sub-divisions) based on their spectra.
It was then found that novae are usually due to material accreting onto a white dwarf until it triggers nuclear fusion. Type 1a supernovae are where this reaches the Chandrasekhar limit making it much brighter. Other supernovae are where the core of a massive star collapses and the outer layers are violently ejected.
That's a simple explanation from someone who isn't an astronomer. The full story is much more complicated. There are many different causes of novae and supernovae and many observations where it is still not clear what was happening. There is a lot we still don't know about them.
I understand hypernova and quark nova are terms for possible explanations for Gamma Ray Bursts - very intense bursts of gammas radiation of unknown origin that are seen quite often and are coming from a very long way away. A hypernova is a very big supernova caused by the collapse of a very massive star; a quark nova is the collapse of a neutron star into quark matter. I think this is all hypothetical.
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In the dream realm (and the Pony Life universe) ponies can explode any number of times.
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Explaining the physics to a wide audience is what I'm trying to do, so I definitely think that's a good thing.
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My brother is brilliant at particle physics and he explains things to me very well. I'm on the lookout for more stories like this!
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If you're doing anything with tidal forces, please involve Cranky Doodle.
This was a nice story.
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Obviously there's a few details missing. But as The Doctor said "If it helps."
Was gonna go Pratchett but there's nothing meaninfully wrong in here, it's just simplified. That's not a bad thing, btw: I know it's hard to infer tone on text.
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I'm not sure what that story would be yet, but I suspect it would involve Steven Magnet.
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Thank you.
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When dealing with black holes, you don't want to try anything other than simplified.
Starlight has weird dreams.
This sentence alone make the story worth it.
And this sentence is arguably more terrifying than all of Daybreaker's presence through the whole thing.
Brilliant stuff. Always fun to see ponies doing science, especially in such creative ways. Thank you as always.
Did you just blend my favorite fiery pony villain with meticulously accurate astrophysics? Congratulations, you've earned a new stalker.
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That's what I do. Welcome.
And as a bonus it gives this story more likes!
No, she will also scream at young foals to get off her lawn!
Nightmare Moon: "Hey! That's my job!"
Good story!
I enjoyed reading it.
This was good.
All things black are Nightmare Moon's thing, not Daybreaker's.
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And I agree at what Nightmare Moon would say at the black hole part. She would definitely say that!
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Nightmare Moon: "All those Eternal-Night-Wannabes are getting annoying. Darkness is my department! Mine alone! I swear if I see just one more of those I will-"
Pony of Shadows: "Allow me to introduce myself."
Nightmare Moon: *narrows eyes* "I heard the moon is beautiful this time of the year..."
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I can so see that happening as well. Nightmare Moon would ignore the Pony of Shadows. 
I wonder what would have happened if Twilight's biggest fear came as she is foalsitting Flurry Heart and Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker happened to arrive at Twilight's castle while Twilight and Flurry are playing hide and seek.
In high school one of physics problems I solved literally started from something like "Winnie-the-Pooh ate so much honey that he collapsed into a black hole"