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I agree with you, but I'd like to point out that it's easy to say "x is very specific" if you know exactly what x is after-the-fact.
by scrollaway 10y ago
I agree with you, but I'd like to point out that it's easy to say "x is very specific" if you know exactly what x is after-the-fact.
- prewett 10y agoTrue, and a good point to make. My understanding of the difficulty of the atomic bomb was that everyone knew what to do (smash enriched uranium together such that was more than a certain mass), but they had a lot of difficulty getting the spherical detonation right. So the problem wasn't unknown from the physics side, but was rather an engineering problem. Compare to "cure all diseases," which we don't even know how to do theoretically.