Best of luck to everyone chasing the solar eclipse tomorrow. I hope the weather behaves. If you are close to the line of totality, it is definitely worth making the effort to get there. I blogged about how awesome it was back in 2017 (see: Pre-Eclipse Post, Post-Eclipse Post; also my

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I am working to finish Infinite Imponability Drive as soon as I can. Unfortunately the last two weeks have been so crazy that it’s been hard to set aside more than a few hours to do any writing…

Meanwhile, let’s get back to talking about random physics. It seems as good a time as any to consider the ultimate fate of our world. How will the universe end?

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Work on Infinite Imponability Drive continues. I aim to get another chapter up by next weekend. Thank you to everyone who left comments. Sorry I have not been very responsive. I got sidetracked for the last two weeks preparing a talk for the ATOM society on Particle Detectors for the LHC and Beyond, which took rather more of my time than I anticipated.

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Everything is beautiful now that we have our first rainbow of the season.

What is life? Is it nothing more than the endless search for a cutie mark? And what is a cutie mark but a constant reminder that we're all only one bugbear attack away from oblivion?

We are the Flutter Ponies, better run and hide. We can zig and zag and zoom, up and down and side to side.

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Happy end-of-2023 everyone.

I just posted a new story.

EInfinite Imponability Drive

• MLP: FiM
• Equestria Girls
• MLP Gen 5
• Comedy
• Random
• Sci-Fi

In an infinitely improbable set of events, Twilight Sparkle, Sunny Starscout, and other ponies of all generations meet at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.

• Crossover
• Main 6
• Mane 5

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This is one of the craziest things that I have ever tried to write and is a consequence of me having rather more unstructured free time than usual for the last week.

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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

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In anticipation of the arrival of dragons to G5 Equestria, I decided to do some background reading on these big reptiles.

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I hope everyone had a fun Dark Matter Day.

If anyone is looking for a new job, here is an opportunity that will let you work on dark matter research and also provide the perfect environment to complete that Nightmare Moon epic that you have always wanted to write.

IceCube Experiment - Winterover Experiment Operator

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The finale of Chapter 5 nicely leads us to Dark Matter Day (31 October, also known as Nightmare Night), the time of the year when we celebrate the invisible component of the universe. Time for an update on this darkest of contemporary physics research topics.

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