The Amnimorphic Spell
by ~Jrakob

The Amnimophic spell is a complex spell that (in the simplest of terms)allows the user to keep track of multiple experiments at one time via self writing scrolls and by sending those reports to the caster during predetermined "activators" created when the spell was cast.
Invented by Starswirl the bearded nearly three hundred years ago during the end of the Griffin wars and was not fully integrated as a standard spell into the scientific pursuits until the signing of the Alicorn peace agreement of 763 thirty five years later.

During the height of it's use in 814, and the time leading up to that; many ponies lost jobs, many well trained scientist who had spent most of there livelihood studding and training to work in labs had found that the jobs they thought would be waiting for them when they finished there schooling had disappeared, still others who would have otherwise worked as laborers for those scholars lost there jobs as well, with no need for sample handlers or even writers the Equestrian market took a nose dive.
This inevitably led up to labor disputes between Scientist who used the spell and the workers that claimed it was unfair to use.

It is ironic that the same spell that caused millions of ponies to loos there jobs and still others to work in fields far below there schooling would inevitably create many more jobs twelve years later than before it's creation forty eight years before.
Starswirl was once asked if he regretted creating the amnimophic spell, he was quoted as saying "technological and magical advancements can not and should not be stopped on the basis of money and the pursuit of work, but rather used to create a better world to work in".
Starswirl's words would ring true when through the use of his spell a new compound was discovered that cured Cushing's Disease(a).
Now millions of jobs for workers and scholars alike where created practically over night.
Thousands of work hands where needed to pack and ship the new vaccine as well as scientist to work in labs to create the vaccine, which inevitably meant that more labs had to be built, which created even more jobs for builders and craftquines.

Before the invention of the amnimophic spell Many experiments could only be theorized as to what the results would be, there was no accurate way (for example) to take test of how rapidly the morphing proses of flesh to stone from the stare of a cockatrice without seriously endangering any scientist or workers in the vicinity, scientist could only make observations from safety, even then the data gathered differed greatly from pony to pony depending on the pony observing.
Still other experiments required the organization of thousands to calculate the migration of birds, but because one pony may have a diferant perception of how fast the migration was, or even what the precise direction flocks of birds where flying data could only be "ball parked" at best and completely wrong at it's worse.

It was in 767 when Starswirl realized the full implications of the amnimophic spell, he realized that a scientist in Stalliongrad could measure sunspots and receive data that could later be compared to results received by a scientist in the Fillypines and find that they where exactly the same.
Because of Starswirl's invention Data gathered by one scientist no longer would differ from another doing the same experiment, Starswirl was once quoted as saying "it may be possible to to lie using magic but spells never guess".