A pony of mystery in the darkness. Or I forgot to take the lens cap off. (They/them is fine.)
One day, Twilight Sparkle wakes up to the realization that she's in a religious cult, and Princess Celestia doesn't really raise the sun.
Fiction about science counts as 'science fiction,' right? 
Probably an entry in Science Fiction Writing Contest (Mk III).
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Does the same go for Princess Luna?
Beautifully done, this absolutely should count as Sci-Fi n_n
This was good, thanks for writing.
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Well that took a dark turn!
"It is far easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled." — Mark Twain
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Not the most darkest turn I have read.
Silly book honse.
Presumably we disregard all canonical evidence to the contrary, for the sake of this story?
Wow! For a bunch of creatures that has only figured out steam engines. There sure not lacking Astronomy. But even Applejack's logic is flawed. They're still not gravity in space, so even if Celestia is not constantly in control of it, it would still stay where it is. Plus Twilight can easily say discord move the sun and moon. So why is it impossible for celestia or Luna to move there celestial bodies thousand years of science down the drain after that question.
Be careful what you wish for, Tia. You just might get it.
And I did suspect that particular bit of fanart had been the inspiration. The connection between apples and gravity continues.
Imagine Twilight turns to evil because of this entire lie, seeing as how a lot of fallen heroes turn due to lies, and how this one really upset poor Twilight.
The idea that Canterlotthians are a bunch of backwards cult worshippers despite their insane wealth is both hilarious an terrifying.
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Incorrect, there's plenty of gravity in space. If neither the earth nor the sun were moving, then the earth would start to accelerate towards the sun, and they would end up colliding.
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Murdering the rulers and putting yourself in charge sounds like something only a deranged psychopath would consider doing. Just saying.
Is it wrong to think Discord maybe switched the twilights of two different realities here and there's another on slowly going insane learning all her friends think Celestia does raise the sun and she believes in science and gravity?
Interesting story. I think there was a missed opportunity to have Twilight use her established character traits, study and experiment, and come to her own self-realization about day/night cycles.
I'm also glad this is marked A.U., as the other Mane 6 nisleading Twilight on this topic feels very much out of characater for their show-selves.
Very hilarious.
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Yes I understand gravity does exist in space but in the MLP universe It cannot because Celestia and Luna moves them. On top of that it would cost major problems in stories if that wasn't true at least in the original Canon
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It's fine, Twiggle Spergs just took over the sun and moon raising and lowering duties. Or at the very least, if they weren't being done, then she started doing them.
You know, the celestial mechanics of this world always bothered me. Even if you ignore how Celestia is able to move the sun and moon, I can not ignore the question of *why* she does it. Why do the sun and moon even need to be raised in the first place? Or for that matter, how could a system like this even come about to begin with, if you need someone to raise and lower the sun and moon every day? The most satisfying answer that I have ever gotten to that question from other people was basically "Discord did it."
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what always bothered me was "if there exists a method to do it that doesn't require some magical destiny power, why was it not automated as science/magic advanced." 1000 years of peace gave celestia a long ass time to improve her shitty backwater
This makes me think of the artifact Celestia and Luna made in Season 9, in preparation for Twilight's rise to power. If they could have done that at any time, why didn't they? And considering how the mane 6 had been starting to get disgruntled about the royal sisters in Season 9 (Rainbow pointing out how they never help, how they feel about them showing up for every little thing in that one episode as if they're trying to get some thrills at the tail end of their reign), I'm surprised no one in-universe commented about how convenient suddenly being able to enchant an artifact with _cutie mark magic_ is. Maybe if they had the assistance of Starlight Glimmer, whose specialty _is_ cutie mark magic, I might understand, but even then it was far too sudden.
This makes a lot of sense but raises more questions than answers.
i'm sorry but this implies princess luna, nightmare moon, the thousand-year banishment, the whole existance of the legend of nightmare moon, the elements of harmony, and the magic of friendship are all part of the conspiracy
Rainbow telling Twi to touch some grass and her reaction made my morning xD thanks for writing this!
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But the entire point of this fic is that that isn't the case here, and the universe actually operates off of regular physics.
Clearly this is in an alternate universe because if the world wasn't geocentric then Discord would have spun the earth so much faster to make day and night switch pretty much instantly and every pony would just be dead.
...Neat.
Very neat actually.
Good story!
I enjoyed reading it.
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I actually felt this was the weakest bit of lore "fixing" in this story. The "proof" is supposed to be that Nightmare Moon... took the time to change everyone's clocks? Why? The sun would still eventually rise if that was the case, so what was the point? And then, how did Twilight not later notice her clocks had all been changed? 0/10 for this making sense as a "solution".
I generally like the theory that there's two suns: the real one at the center of the solar system that went cold at some point, likely due to Discord level magical shenanigans; and Celestia's sun, a relatively small magical orb created to replace it.
Canonically, Rarity literally flew close enough to the sun that it incinerated the wings Twilight conjured for her.
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Basically Scientology.
It would be kind of hard to prove how in the world the sun and moon were out at the same time with a literal split down the middle of day at night with science. Just saying lol. And yeah, explaining discord shenanigans with the sun during his escape