Science Communication with My Little Pony Fan Fiction

I have a new post on my Particle Gadgeteering blog, which is all about pony fiction. However (before you all rush off to read it) this one is not written for you (although you are still welcome to read and comment of course). This is my attempt to explain what I do on Fimfiction to my fellow science communicators, many of whom have only the haziest idea about what fan fiction is, and whose only knowledge of My Little Pony is vague memories of a plastic toy from thirty year ago. This is probably worse in the UK than the US.

I am not expecting much, but you never know. Maybe I will recruit some more science fan fiction writers.

Science Communication with My Little Pony Fan Fiction

Have a great holiday everyone.

Comments

[Georg]

So is there any way to use the new formula codes in BBS/Fimfiction encoding to display that formula you use as an example? Asking for a friend.

(reads, reads, re... Holy cow. 700k Harry Potter fanfictions. Maybe I should cross-post over on fanfiction when I'm done with my crossover, if I can ever figure out how that goofy site works. Oh, and how did you count 110k MLP stories? My most recent one is #395,000 or so. That many incomplete/removed stories?)

[Pineta]

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Counting fanfics is harder than it should be. I can't remember how I got the 110k figure - I wrote that bit weeks ago - I'll check my notebook. It may be I excluded mature stories, or it may be I messed up.

There's new formula codes? I need to check this out.

[Matthewl419]

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If you just click the little search button, it’ll tell you it found 114k stories. 93k if you have mature stuff turned off.
Also, personally, I have 3 I never published, or even finished for that matter, cause crappy-ness. So, yeah, just that many were deleted/ never published.
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https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/786163/math-bbcode-tag

[Pineta]

4757070 4757111 Thanks

-\frac{\hslash^2}{2m}\nabla^2\Psi+V\Psi=i\hslash\frac{\partial\Psi}{\partial t} 

[mathblock]-\frac{\hslash^2}{2m}\nabla^2\Psi+V\Psi=i\hslash\frac{\partial\Psi}{\partial t} [/mathblock]

[Georg]

4757159 Oh, God. We created a monster.

[Pineta]

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And for good measure:
camo.derpicdn.net/2400ec02265ba4855b37f4eaa67d9bf3cbed63cb?url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg3.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20130304014545%2Fmlp%2Fimages%2Fthumb%2F4%2F4c%2FTwilight_looking_at_equation_S2E20.png%2F640px-Twilight_looking_at_equation_S2E20.png

\gamma_0 = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-v_0^2/c^2}},

x(t) = \frac {c^2}{g} \left( \sqrt{1 + \frac{\left(gt + v_0\gamma_0\right)^2}{c^2}} -\gamma_0 \right).

\tau(t) = \tau_0 + \int_0^t \sqrt{ 1 - \left( \frac{v(t')}{c} \right)^2 } dt'.

\tau(t) = \frac{c}{g} \ln \left(  \frac{gt}{c} + \sqrt{ 1 + \left( \frac{gt}{c} \right)^2 } \right) = \frac{c}{g} \operatorname {arsinh} \left( \frac{gt}{c} \right) .

[mathblock]\gamma_0 = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-v_0^2/c^2}},[/mathblock]
[mathblock]x(t) = \frac {c^2}{g} \left( \sqrt{1 + \frac{\left(gt + v_0\gamma_0\right)^2}{c^2}} -\gamma_0 \right).[/mathblock]
[mathblock]\tau(t) = \tau_0 + \int_0^t \sqrt{ 1 - \left( \frac{v(t')}{c} \right)^2 } dt'.[/mathblock]
[mathblock]\tau(t) = \frac{c}{g} \ln \left(  \frac{gt}{c} + \sqrt{ 1 + \left( \frac{gt}{c} \right)^2 } \right) = \frac{c}{g} \operatorname {arsinh} \left( \frac{gt}{c} \right) .[/mathblock]

(Cut and paste from wikipedia)

[Matthewl419]

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Heh, glad to see you're having fun.
Get me out of here

[AppleTank]

I understood some of those words.

[Walabio]

¡Excellent! Unfortunately, other Physicists and Engineers may not understand. If so, just ignore them. You do great outreach.

[Periwinkle fay 22]

I think what you’re doing is awesome. If you wanted to, it would be really cool if you could reach oit to scientists in other fields. There’s a lot of wonderful material to cover here and a lot of eager minds who would love to see new concepts in a familear concept.

[Periwinkle fay 22]

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