# The Great Equation



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We were performing measurements when it stroke us as a lightning. It had been in front of our eyes since ever.



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The Great Equation was written mostly during the 1849 winter. We knew then that the world would be changed forever.



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The presentation of our results at the Düsseldorf Academy of Sciences raised a lot of interest among the noble members.



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The public reaction to the Great Equation announcement, and our ensuing incarceration, although unjustified, were endured by Julius and me with always the greatest faith in our own discovery.



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The writing, and the publishing of our plaquette, through clandestine publishers, soon shone the light on what was an unavoidable truth and eyes opened.



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Our rehabilitation eventually happened as an inevitable victory.



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Soon we reached the highest levels of the Academy.



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Our full grip on the power was only a logical consequence of the importance of our Message.



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And now, at the dusk of my life, after pondering extensively,



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I contemplate the work I have achieved, and am still in awe before its great meaning:



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THE GREAT EQUATION!