have quite good connections here. That is to
say,
Mr. Ansbacher is
a
close friend of the
professor
of
chemistry
at the Milan
Polytechnicum,
and,
further, Michele's
uncle
is
a
professor of
mathematics. It is
true that Michele is
a
terrible schlemiel but I'll grab him by the
scruff of his neck and
drag
him
along
to his uncle
& once
I
am
there
I'll do
my
own
talking.
At
present
Michele is at his
parents'
in
Trieste with wife and child and will
only
be back in about 10
days.
You need not fear that I will
say
a
single
word about
you
to him
or
anyone
else. You
are
and remain to
me a
shrine which
nobody
is
allowed to enter; I also know that of
all
the people it's
you
who
loves
me
most deeply and understands
me
best. I
can
also
assure
you
that nobody here would dare
or
want
to
say
anything
bad about
you.
How
happy
and
proud
I will be when the two of
us
together
will have
brought
our
work
on
the relative motion to
a
victorious
conclusion!
When I
see
other
people
then it
really
strikes
me
how much there is to
you.
On the
evening
of the day before yesterday, Michele's director,
with whom
we
are
rather well
acquainted,
was
at
our
house for music
making. He said how totally unusable and almost mentally
incompetent
[not responsible
for his actions in
a
legal
sense]
Michele is,
despite
his
extraordinarily
extensive
knowledge.
The most delectable is the
following
little story, whose
veracity
can
be vouched for, since the
person
in
question
knows about
my
friendship
with Michele
&
has
reason
to
fear that the
thing
will be reported to him... Once again,
Michele
had
nothing
to do. So his principal sends him
to
the Casale
power
station to
inspect
and check the
newly
installed lines.
Our hero
decides
to
leave in the
evening,
to
save
valuable time, of
course,
but
unfortunately
he missed the train. The next day he
remembered
the
commission too late. On the third day he went
to
the train
on
time,
but
realized,
to his
horror,
that he
no
longer knew what he
had been
requested to do;
so
he
immediately
wrote
a
postcard
to the
office,
asking that they should wire
him what he
was
supposed
to do!! I think
the
man
is
not normal.
Concerning
the
problem
of
specific heat,
which at the
same
time
encompassses
the
relationship
between temperature and radiation
process,
I
can
now
think of
very
simple
consequences
for metals, which
perhaps might
be checked using experiments that have
already
been
done.
Let the
amplitude
of
a
train of
waves
progressing
with
a
-"ÖC
x
certain
wave
length
in the direction
+x
be Ie
,
where
I
is
a
constant.
Further,
if
N
is
the number of
radiation resonators
(atoms)
in
a
unit
volume,
then a/N shall be
independent
of the nature of the
substance and
linearly
dependent
on
the
temperature.
Hence
a/N
would
be
a
function
of the form L1(ä)T
+
L2(A) which
is
independent
of the
nature of the metal.
First
we
would have to
investigate
whether
a can
be
determined
by
experiments
on
reflected
light,
and to what extent the experiments
done
so
far
can
be used for
deciding
the
question.
I burn with desire
to work
my way
into this,
because I
hope
that it will be possible to
make
a
gigantic
step
in the
exploration
of
the
nature of latent
heat.
Don't
forget
to look
up
to what extent glass
obeys
the law of Dulong
and Petit.
Keep
my
umbrella for the time being.
We
will then
see
what to do
about it. If
only
I would succeed in
getting
a
position,
so
that
we
can
go
on a
little trip in
summer.
Let's
hope
for the best.
Tender
greetings
and kisses,
my
dear little
dumpling,
from
your
Albert
How
are
things with the
new
pad-to-be?
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