Members of the Nobel Committee, Honoured Friends, I wish to take this opportunity to speak briefly about what Mudcat has for me done. It is true that this award has come to me for my studies in Brownian motion, and the expectation that my essays in special relativity would lead to the resolution of the question of the ether, among other problems. For many years I have been struggling to create a simple solution to the transformation of energy into matter problem. What could E equal? mass divided by the square of the speed of sound? gravitational forces multiplied by infinity? Often I toyed with the equation E=MT¹, MA², but to no avail. Then, one day, as I was swirling a glass of muddy water, analysing the Brownian motion, Max Planck phoned me up and said that there was an interesting thread on Muddy Water on the e-site called Mudcat. Instantly I had the answer!! E=Mudcat Squared!!!!!!E=MC²!!!! It is to this noble institution that I owe this prize, and also humanity owes the prospect of a nuclear holocaust. Congratulations, Catters!!!!"
--Albert Einstein, physicist, humanitarian, Mudcatter Emeritus.