Interesting display difference in mail.app and Thunderbird

[clevin]

just wrote a email with equations in there, the symbol "^" was used to indicate the "power", I composed email in plain text. and this is the difference:

 

[MisterMe]

just wrote a email with equations in there, the symbol "^" was used to indicate the "power", I composed email in plain text. and this is the difference:
...

Wow! And I thought the Schrödinger Equation was impressive.

 

[clevin]

Wow! And I thought the Schrödinger Equation was impressive.

better than nothin, does it?