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Student of Physics, Poetry & Meme Culture. Tech policy & communication consultant who turned law enforcement agencies into social media superstars.
Oct 7, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
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Even after a century, the work of Albert Einstein continues to inspire new sciences.

A meager patent clerk, ridiculed for his theories, had to flee Germany as he was widely thought to be public enemy number one of the Nazis, who discredited his work. One of the theories promoted by Hitler and Himmler to discredit the accepted understanding of how the Universe works was Welteislehre- World Ice Theory, which posited that everything in the Universe is made of ice crystals.

They promoted this theory to discredit Einstein.