Lou Wojcinski: Trying to decide the best part. “Leave it to the reptiles… “ is something I need to pocket for future meetings. But that whole PS about calculating the motion of diatomic molecules as an Oh, by-the-way kind of add-on is too funny.

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Trying to decide the best part. “Leave it to the reptiles… “ is something I need to pocket for future meetings. But that whole PS about calculating the motion of diatomic molecules as an Oh, by-the-way kind of add-on is too funny.

and by a "comic witticism" that he doesn't think will pan out.

He applied the method of Lulz et al.

And the Bofa-Deez Principle.

It came to me in a dream

I want to know the comic witticism! Not that I’d understand it, but …

That was absolutely a hook he included hoping she'd write back to ask what the witticism was!

Makes sense to me!

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