Friday, February 03, 2006

Pain Equation for Bike Riding on Ice in Germany!

Albert Einstein said, "Life is like riding a bicycle... To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” In the true spirit of experimental physics I have collected personal data to the contrary and submit the following addendum to his quote, “Except for Texans riding a bicycle on ice.” There are natural laws in life that allow us to make reasonable predictions. These include such wonderful constants as the force of gravity, the speed of light, and Avagadro’s number. Today, I propose a new constant that describes the PAIN occurrence of a Texan riding a bicycle on ice. If N is the number of times a Texan is on a bike per day, and Pi is the transcendental number, approximately 3.14159 that expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle ( remember, there are two circles for a bicycle), one can easily calculate the Rate Of Body Injuries (ROBI) with the following equation :

2Pi / N = ROBI

I typically ride my bike 4 time per day: House to Train, Train to Work and then Work to Train and Train to House. Then my ROBI for one week is 2*3.14/4 = 1.5 , which means I will experience Pain three times every two weeks. For simplicity sake and memory ease this equation can be rearranged to

2Pi = ROBIN.

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