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Oppenheimer recalling the Trinity test: It brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I'm sure those scie
by njarboe 9y ago
Oppenheimer recalling the Trinity test:
It brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
I'm sure those scientists thought about it and discussed it among themselves, but they were in a super top secret lab in the middle of nowhere. Not much opportunity to leave an historical record of what they thought (letters highly censored, etc).
- sametmax 9y agoThe Feynman biography cover in length the what happened, but it doesn't mention much debate about this.