 Reich responded with a 25 @-@ page letter in which he tried to change Einstein 's mind . To rule out the influence of convection he told Einstein that he had taken certain measures , including introducing a horizontal plate above the accumulator , wrapping it in a blanket , hanging it from the ceiling , burying it underground and placing it outside . He wrote that in all these circumstances the temperature difference remained , and was in fact more marked in the open air . Einstein did not respond to this or to Reich 's future correspondence – Reich would write regularly reporting the results of his experiments – until Reich threatened three years later to publish their previous exchange . Einstein replied that he could not devote any further time to the matter and asked that his name not be misused for advertising purposes . Reich believed that Einstein 's change of heart was part of a conspiracy of some kind , perhaps related to the communists or prompted by the rumours that Reich was ill . Reich published the correspondence in 1953 as The Einstein Affair . 
