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I can just imagine this in his voice (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc) Feynman is my favourite phy

I can just imagine this in his voice (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYg6jzotiAc) Feynman is my favourite physicist. Of course you could pick someone else, you could argue about the relative importance of each person's contribution to scientific knowledge, but it was his aimiability, playfulness and curiousity, combined with the fact that he _did_ break new frontiers in quantum physics that make him so inspiring for me. His famed series of lectures at Caltech were a great introduction to physics. I was hoping to see more of his time at Los Alamos in the Oppenheimer biopic, but he doesn't even seem to be in it. There's supposedly someone playing him, but I don't see it; I assume the two-second silent shot of someone from behind playing the bongos was meant to be him.

isoprophlex 3y ago
Yeah uh I was forever hoping for Feynmann to appear. Suddenly, a man playing bongos! Finally, here he comes, I thought... but no. No Feynmann. What a disappointment.
kitchi 3y ago
There was the person who viewed the blast from behind glass with no protection, which I'm pretty sure is a reference to his story about the exact same thing.
privacyisntdead 3y ago
A favorite of mine as well. I too was hoping for more of an appearance. I wondered if Feynman’s moment was during the first test scene where there is a spectator/scientist sitting in a car with Teller sitting in a lawn chair in the foreground. Feynman says in one of his books he noticed the car windows should block the UV radiation.
- amiga386 3y ago
  Ah, yes, that is it. So he gets a few more seconds in the movie than I thought :) [An army man is handing out welders glass to the observers. Feynman is in a car, Teller is next to him in a deckchair rubbing sun cream into his skin] TELLER [to the army man while rubbing his hands]: On the leg, please ARMY MAN: Feynman FEYNMAN: No. The glass [knocks on car windshield] stops the UV TELLER: And what stops the glass?
noslenwerdna 3y ago
He's one of the scientists being recruited from a university (they address him by name). He also says something about building a cyclotron when they are constructing Los Alamos. And he sits behind a window of a car or truck during the atomic test blast. That's all I spotted

isoprophlex 3y ago

Yeah uh I was forever hoping for Feynmann to appear. Suddenly, a man playing bongos! Finally, here he comes, I thought... but no. No Feynmann. What a disappointment.

kitchi 3y ago

There was the person who viewed the blast from behind glass with no protection, which I'm pretty sure is a reference to his story about the exact same thing.

privacyisntdead 3y ago

A favorite of mine as well. I too was hoping for more of an appearance. I wondered if Feynman’s moment was during the first test scene where there is a spectator/scientist sitting in a car with Teller sitting in a lawn chair in the foreground. Feynman says in one of his books he noticed the car windows should block the UV radiation.

amiga386 3y ago
Ah, yes, that is it. So he gets a few more seconds in the movie than I thought :) [An army man is handing out welders glass to the observers. Feynman is in a car, Teller is next to him in a deckchair rubbing sun cream into his skin] TELLER [to the army man while rubbing his hands]: On the leg, please ARMY MAN: Feynman FEYNMAN: No. The glass [knocks on car windshield] stops the UV TELLER: And what stops the glass?

noslenwerdna 3y ago

He's one of the scientists being recruited from a university (they address him by name). He also says something about building a cyclotron when they are constructing Los Alamos. And he sits behind a window of a car or truck during the atomic test blast. That's all I spotted