Particle Physics and Pony Fiction Experimentalist
The News this week: Germany wins the world cup... Rebels shoot down a passenger airliner in eastern Ukraine... Intense thunder storms hit southern England... and Breaking News and Weather made it onto Equestria Daily. And I also had a technical paper accepted by Nuclear Instruments and Methods. I am such an awesome polymath.
HELLO dear readers, this is PINKIE PIE, your Pony Friend Forever, Party Planner Extra-ordinaire, and fully qualified Nuclear Reactor Engineer. I'm writing this blog post as Pineta is away this week, which means I have a chance to tell you about sub-atomic physics and my favourite particle the neutron.
Let's mark July 4 with something from the Master of Chaos...
“How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!”
A few weeks ago Walabio suggested I write a blog post for Tau Day. Tau Day, for those to whom this is all Greek, is an obvious extension of pi day: pi=π=3.14=March 14; tau=τ=2π=6.28=June 28. The benefits of using tau (defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its radius), in place of the considerably more widely used pi (ratio of the circumference to the diameter), are partly that it is more natural, and
The Twilight's Castle playset is out—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBJxXz5SxqE—with vanity chest, closet, and library book.
I think Twilight would install some additional features...
I've just been reading through the following mouth watering geology-themed-cake blog posts from the Geological Society of London:
It's time we had a science lesson from Applejack...
“So in this field we have McIntosh, Golden Russet, Redstreak, Macoun and Ashmead's Kernel. Then down in the south orchard we keep Granny Smith, Westfield Seek-No-Further, Flower of Kent, Tremlett's Bitter...”