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Oppenheimer Movie Review
magic:
It's your fault for not knowing that Hollywood is a bunch of SJWs only interested in a poor persecuted communist, not nukes ;D
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: magic on October 07, 2023, 11:46:14 am ---It's your fault for not knowing that Hollywood is a bunch of SJWs only interested in a poor persecuted communist, not nukes ;D
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Oh I knew that, I was just dumb enough to think what I saw in the trailer might be expanded on in the movie somewhat. Stupid me.
iMo:
Next time you may let design, assemble and detonate the nuke in a reality show shot directly in the Disney Studios Australia..
Not sure how much a ticket would cost then, however..
:-DD
--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 07, 2023, 12:22:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: magic on October 07, 2023, 11:46:14 am ---It's your fault for not knowing that Hollywood is a bunch of SJWs only interested in a poor persecuted communist, not nukes ;D
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Oh I knew that, I was just dumb enough to think what I saw in the trailer might be expanded on in the movie somewhat. Stupid me.
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TimFox:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 07, 2023, 11:17:02 am ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on October 06, 2023, 09:49:14 pm ---For those who were disappointed in the movie "Oppenheimer" because it was, as advertised, about Robert Oppenheimer and not about hardware
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The "advertisment" was the trailer. And the trailer implies that there is a LOT about the hardware and the project.
Add in the fact that Oppenheimer would be essentially a nobody, and a movie never made about him if it wasn't for the project. Hence why the had to sell the trailer as being about the project.
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Yes, Hollywood has a bad habit of releasing trailers that are often more interesting than the movie.
However, I object strenuously to your statement that "Oppenheimer would be essentially a nobody" if it weren't for the project.
The project actually ruined him as a scientist: besides the official government proceedings against him, culminating in not being allowed to read papers he had authored, it almost stopped his publication.
According to Wikipedia "After World War II, Oppenheimer published only five scientific papers, one of them in biophysics, and none after 1950."
During the interwar years, Oppenheimer had a lot of competition in terms of scientific novelty (before going into the bomb business), and was an imperfect human being, but made many useful contributions to physics.
Prior to the project, summarizing from that Wikipedia article, he worked on many important topics in quantum mechanics and other subjects that were evolving between the wars.
A few:
The quantum theory of molecular band spectra and a method to carry out calculations of its transition probabilities.
He calculated the photoelectric effect for hydrogen and X-rays, obtaining the absorption coefficient at the K-edge.
Field emission of electrons.
The Oppenheimer-Phillips process for deuteron-induced radioactivity.
Prediction that the positron was a positive electron (not a proton).
Shortly before the war, he concentrated on astrophysics, especially gravitational collapse of neutron stars and production of black holes.
The last above is his most famous work, along with the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, which separates nuclear motion from electronic motion in the mathematical treatment of molecules, allowing nuclear motion to be neglected to simplify calculations (published in 1927, fresh out of graduate school).
Meanwhile, I seriously recommend the book I cited. I especially liked the deep-focus interior shots from the two US museums dedicated to Titan and Minuteman launch control centers.
coppice:
--- Quote from: TimFox on October 07, 2023, 03:47:30 pm ---Yes, Hollywood has a bad habit of releasing trailers that are often more interesting than the movie.
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I'd say they have a bad habit of releasing trailers that simply misrepresent movies. I've avoided several films based on trailers that made it seem the movie was not for me. Then years later I stumbled on the film on a plane or in a hotel room, and found it was quite good.
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