It’s time for me to properly introduce a future particle physics experiment, which I have been working on for the past two news for a steadily increasing fraction of my time. It’s primarily a US project, but like everything we do in particle physics, it’s a global collaboration, and now has sufficiently secure British funding that I will probably be able keep doing this one for some more years, despite the

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Despite starting this year with a new story which ran to over 12,000 words, I’ve not been so active writing in 2024. It feels like this blog is fizzling out like G5. We will see if I manage to turn that around in 2025. This year has been disappointing in some ways. Not least how G5 ended. The New Generation started with so much potential, but we are now left in a strange sort of limbo. We know neither ponies nor the fandom are going to disappear, but it’s not clear what to do next.

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This year, the UK held a general election on the day that the US celebrates the anniversary of independence, which lead a few Labour supporters to suggest, in jest, that henceforth Britain should also celebrate it, having delivered independence from Conservative rule.

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Before creating Hitch-Hikers, Douglas Adams had worked as a script writer for Doctor Who. He explained that his new universe provided an outlet for plot ideas that had been rejected by Doctor Who editors for being too silly. He also reacted against the core character of the Doctor. As Who fans know, the Doctor is a hero who, upon learning that the Earth is to be destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, would work tirelessly to save it by non-violent means,

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Where was I before I popped out to lunch three months ago? Pondering about imponability… That is still going on. But, right now, I am distracted by British political history as we now have a general election, which looks likely to be of historic significance.

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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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