@GSI

For already one week I'm staying at GSI, Germany's lab for heavy ion research, attending a PANDA collaboration meeting. PANDA is a proton-antiproton annihilation experiment which will start taking data somewhen between 2012 and 2014 at FAIR, an accelerator facility being build in international collaboration with a total budget of 675 million Euro.

They have nice and modern guest houses but anyway you realise that this is a place for nerds. For example when you move into your room and it has instead of a room number the name of a radioactive isotope. I'm staying in "Uranium". For example, when you find a big whiteboard in your room, still covered with quantum mechanics formulas from the previous guest. For example when you look out of the window onto a nice little lake and see old magnets and detectors in the meadow. :-)

Of course Kryptikmo's physics rules apply also here.