Record of a Friendship

If you can get hold of several square feet of tin you can use it by

putting it under the bed-cover while you lie in bed. I saved the life of a

cancer patient who was lamed in his legs by that simple measure. Again

a fact impossible and unbelievable for the big-shots with twisted brains.

Please write again and often. We are all eager to hear from you.

Organon

Rangeley , Maine

My dear Neill,

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September 6, 1943

There were two points in your last letter which I did not
answer in my letter to you. The one point is concerning the money
which you have lent in peacetime and the other is Einstein. I shall pro­
ceed with the second first.
When I wrote you that the great respect I once had for physicists
had vanished completely, it is due to a great experience with Einstein.
I don't know whether or when it will be necessary to publish this ex­
perience; anyhow, I want it to be on file in a letter to you, so that no
future biographer may miss it. Here is the factual story, according to
notes in my scientific records of nearly two years ago:
In July, 1940, I discovered the light phenomena, i.e., the orgone in
the atmosphere. Several months later I constructed the accumulator.
Soon after that I found that the temperature, measured by thermometer
above the top of the accumulator, was continuously higher than the
temperature in the surrounding air and within the accumulator. I knew
from physics that such a fact is unbelievable and of tremendous im­
portance, because according to ph ysical law, all temperature differences
equalize. If they don't equalize, then there must be some source of
energy which creates heat. This temperature difference was not only
continuous but it changed exactly with the weather. When the sun was
shining it was high, up to 2 degrees, and when it was raining it dis­
appeared completely. The curves I obtained were completely in accord­
ance with electroscopic measurements of the energy concentration
within the accumulator. The electroscope, too, showed strong concen­
tration in sunny weather and a great diminishment in rainy weather. I
realized the exceedingly important quality of this finding. I wrote to
Einstein to have a talk with him. He answered that he would be glad
to discuss it. I went to him one day in January, 1941, at 3: 30 p.m., and