Marie Curie text message story: The glowing group chat
A short, funny Signal-style chat starring Marie Curie (1867 to 1934), Polish-French physicist and chemist, with her husband Pierre and their daughter. A family group chat is already full of in-jokes; here the in-joke is a photo that glows because of the research.
Read the chat
- Pierre: I made the group chat photo
- Marie: it is just a bright green blur
- Pierre: that is the lab at night
- Irene: Mama, the whole picture glows
- Marie: that is the sample on the shelf
- Pierre: so it is a feature
- Marie: it is a very clever feature
- Irene: can we do a normal photo for my school project
- Marie: we will use the green blur, it is better
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Who was Marie Curie?
- She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
- She and Pierre discovered the elements polonium and radium.
- Her notebooks are still radioactive and are kept in lead-lined boxes.
The chat is invented. Marie Curie never sent these messages, and the story is labelled as fiction wherever it appears.
How this chat is built
It runs 9 messages between Pierre and Marie and Irene. Marie writes 4 of them. The longest line is “can we do a normal photo for my school project” (Irene) and the shortest is “Mama, the whole picture glows” (Irene). The word “photo” comes back 2 times, which is where the rhythm of the joke comes from. It closes on “we will use the green blur, it is better” from Marie.
It is shown in the Signal look , one of the Signal-style chat tools. In the editor you can switch it to any other look and the whole conversation follows.