Scientist’s salary

Physics

I just found sth nice about salaries of scientists…

Petro’s “Salary Theorem” states that:

engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people

and of course there is a mathematical proof for that, using known postulates:

Postulate 1: “knowledge is power”
Postulate 2: “time is money”

so here we go:

power = work / time (that’s highschool physics)
using the postulates it follows:
knowledge = work / money
solving that for money, we get:
money = work / knowledge

thus, as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done

=> the less you know, the more money you make

For those interested in movies…

CERN

… and the “machine” I am working for (on the physics/software front) I got something to look at.
I just got an email with a link to a webpage with some movies made out of webcam pictures taken in the cavern during the last months/years.

The birth of ATLAS http://www.hep.upenn.edu/atlas/movies/movies.html

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for those interested in other fancy stuff… I just got an email with this:
The official Ravensburger ATLAS jigsaw puzzle: click here (pdf)
and the ATLAS 3D viewer: click here (jpg)

Thanx for the flowers

Family & Friends

Thanx to all who remembered my birthday and shame on those who didn’t but should… btw this is a picture of the birthday cake I got from Heike… made in my new shared kitchen, which is getting more social day by day… even the gangster on my floor were painting eggs yesterday, thanks to the initiative of Heike and me…
yeah… old people rule ;-)

Kollegiegården

Copenhagen

Last weekend I finally moved into my new room at Kollegiegården, the dormitory I mentioned before. Nice room with shared kitchen and bathroom… and the dormitory has a pool room, a bar, a gym and a laundry which you can check/book via the local net… cool isn’t it!
Anyway here’s a first glance… more cam be found in the pix section.

btw it’s
Tagensvej 52.1.121
DK-2200 Copenhagen

Ny Cykel

Copenhagen

After another cold walk through Copenhagen last night I finally managed to get a bike (see picture) today. Since the price for parking in or around the city doubled since last time, it is even more necessary to have a bike in Copenhagen. After checking the good old Kvickly (where we got the bikes last time, and a cheap lock this time) I ended up buying the bike at Bilka onestop in Scandinavia’s largest shopping centre field’s, in the south of Copenhagen.
…
btw since this is a weblog I will take some more pictures with my webcam in the future… which is concerning the quality a bit like lomography.