And so Oppenheimer gave him a firm recommendation, leave the country and start fresh somewhere else. Oppenheimer was no stranger to political persecution, and he didn't want Bohm to suffer the same fate.So Bohm took the advice.
for example in one essay is the review of a book of about Robert Oppenheimer uh who I knew slightly uh near near the end of his career and nearthe beginning of mine uh I was my first job uh as a scientist was
invited uh to come to the institute for advanced study in Princeton where Oppenheimer was then Direct ctor and um I gave a talk to talk about my ownrecent work and I gave a talk uh and as
mathematics rather in excess and um Oppenheimer listened to the talk and at the end he he said you remind me ofmyself as a young man and uh I said the first stupid thing that came into my
- In 1942, 23-year-old David Bohm was hard at work on his thesis in particle physics when one day he received an unexpected visit. - Robert Oppenheimer , who was David Bohm's PhD advisor, wanted to bring him squarely onto the new Manhattan Project efforts. - This was a life-changing opportunity.
He did not have clearance, so he couldn't even work on or even write up his own dissertation. So Oppenheimer had to certify that Bohm had done good work. And in 1943 in wartime, that was sufficient for Bohm to actually get a PhD.
it will become a black hole. And Oppenheimer wrote this beautiful paper in 1939 with his student saying that they believed that the end-state of gravitational collapse is actually a black hole.
He does. How do you strike a balance between incorporating the obviously real world events and characters-- like you can't have a show about the atomic bomb without Oppenheimer . How do you strike a balance between that and then exploring this universe that you guys have also created, because it's a fictionalization of the history that we're familiar with.
It seemed that Bohm was destined for obscurity. And so Oppenheimer gave him a firm recommendation, leave the country and start fresh somewhere else. Oppenheimer was no stranger to political persecution, and he didn't want Bohm to suffer the same fate.
That would have been bad. So Robert Oppenheimer , the head of the Manhattan Project, had them run the numbers again. The feeling was that if the odds were greater than approximately three in one million that the bomb would indeed turn the sky into a big global fire,
Then combine with, is the story in the hands? Or not Oppenheimer 's responsibilities, but that job wouldn't be bad.
that we do. So starting with a little bit of history, the Exploratorium was founded in 1969 by Frank Oppenheimer , a brother of Robert Oppenheimer . And they worked side by side on the Manhattan Project.
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And we reproduced eruption of this volcano. -Who would be Oppenheimer ?
Let me tell you a little bit about Gary. I came across Gary Oppenheimer back in the mid 1980s, when we were both at MCI mail. And he noticed that this was a communication company that wasn't communicating well with its customers.
was a uranium bomb. And Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow scientists who managed the Manhattan Project were so confident of that technology, which essentially takes two pieces of highly-enriched uranium--as I say, you could do it with 60 pounds--and brings them together at very high velocity.
Sulli explored the construction of the Citycorp Tower, super glue, and what happened to Amelia Earhart. Petr wrote and directed the videos on Oppenheimer and Japanese swords. Emilia did the same for jet engines and lithium ion batteries.
Why is the sun radiant and hot and this amazing source of light? And it was people like Oppenheimer who began to ask the question, well, could stars collapse to form black holes? Could they become so dense that eventually not even light would escape?
You know, because of the Nazi advance on Poland. - That's the other remarkable thing about Oppenheimer is he's also a central figure in the construction of the bomb. - Right. - So, it's theory and experiment clashing together.
but there were bad feelings. And Wheeler actually spent decades saying Oppenheimer was wrong. And eventually, with his computer work, that early work that Wheeler was doing with computers when he was also trying to understand nuclear weapons,
And in fact, he draws the opposite conclusion. There's a story that Oppenheimer was sitting outside of the auditorium when Wheeler was coming forth with his declaration, that in fact black holes were the likely end-state of gravitational collapse for very, very heavy stars.
And he built actually the first prototype of that at the Institute. Here you see him with Oppenheimer in the integration of the IAS machine. It's quite a remarkable thing.
this is around 1946. That's John von Neumann and Robert Oppenheimer , and they're at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and they're down in the basement, and that's the MANIAC computer.
But there was a problem. The project's military director General Leslie Groves had to approve Oppenheimer 's recruits. And when he ran a background check on Bohm, he didn't like what he saw.
But Alfred saw beyond their beauty to the microscopic holes in their exoskeletons. It's also the same thing that we think about in Oppenheimer .
This was a very big surprise, even though Einstein accepted that this was a true prediction, he didn't think that that they'd be made. And it was quite astounding that people like Oppenheimer , actually it's probably Oppenheimer 's most important theoretical work, who were thinking about nuclear physics and quantum mechanics, but in the context of these kind of utopian questions.
And it was a real turning point. And more people are aware of this now that "Oppenheimer " film is so popular. But at the time, there wasn't many of us that had read that whole big book and were thinking about what that had really
But I dug around in it a lot. And you know, Oppenheimer comes up in there and Lawrence, anybody who's seen the movie. We're in the Rad Lab in Berkeley in the 1930s.
This is one of my most favorite quotes from Ernest Oppenheimer , the then president of De Beers in 1950.
to kind of explore their interior lives in the way that we wanted to. Now of course, Oppenheimer pops up from time to time, mostly in the first season as this kind of Olympian god. His shadow is cast over the events.
including people like J. Robert Oppenheimer , John von Neumann, and a little known mathematician named Stanislaw Ulam.
of gravitational collapse for very, very heavy stars. And when asked about it, Oppenheimer sort of said, "Well, I've moved on to other things." - Because you've written in many places about the human beings behind the science, I have to ask you about this, about nuclear weapons, where it's the greatest of physicists coming together
It was also very interesting and infuriating to me that in that famous movie "Oppenheimer " that just came out about Manhattan Project,
So the thing with Oscar's character was to be a kind of Oppenheimer -like character who's conflicted about what he's doing as he's doing it.
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Thatís Joseph Stalin with the bomb, Oppenheimer looking like a saint, whether he was or not and Stan Ulam spitting, Edward Teller in the middle and George Kamov pulling the tail of
myself as a young man and uh I said the first stupid thing that came into my head thank you and he said that was not a compliment um in fact Oppenheimer and and this was the point I was trying to illustrate with the story uh Oppenheimer had been rather morose as a young
head thank you and he said that was not a compliment um in fact Oppenheimer and and this was the point I was trying to illustrate with the story uh Oppenheimer had been rather morose as a young scientist uh as a student first at Harvard and then as a uh post doctoral
- Right. - With the geopolitics. - Exactly, so ,of course, Oppenheimer , now known as the father of the atomic bomb, he talks about destroyers of worlds, but it's the same technology.
Couldn't find a job to work in physics anywhere in the US despite having recommendation letters from Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein, and ended up
It had von Neumann being partly a role model for Dr. Strangelove and building the coldest of cold warriors, and Oppenheimer , who was kind of caught in between. So it's the perfect case to demonstrate the title of Flexner, that this kind of useless knowledge, whether it's abstract mathematical logic
Dr. Mayer, you are the director of the Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology-- Neuroscience-- DR. EMERAN MAYER: The Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience.
In a way, I was thinking more about people like Oppenheimer .
And, uh, then Oppenheimer fired her because she kinda, I think she knew too much.
Julian Bigelow, Herman Goldstein, Robert Oppenheimer who we think was against the hydrogen bomb but was actually being quite supportive, Johnny Von Neumann, all of the engineers that helped.
and to enter this race over a nuclear weapon. But really at the same time, 1939, really, Oppenheimer 's thinking about black holes. There's even a small line in Chris Nolan's film, it's very hard to catch.
That's a pretty accurate and deep description. I just wanted to point out that the, just looking for the first time, it's a 1939 paper from Oppenheimer . It's like two pages. It's like three pages.
this contraction will continue indefinitely." And it goes on that way. - Yeah, now I have to say that Wheeler, who actually coins the term black hole, gives Oppenheimer quite a terrible time about this. He thinks he's wrong.
And eventually, with his computer work, that early work that Wheeler was doing with computers when he was also trying to understand nuclear weapons, and in peace time, found themselves returning again to these astrophysical questions, decided that actually Oppenheimer had been right. He thought it was too simplistic, too idealized a setup that they had used.
And we reproduced eruption of this volcano. Because if you look at, for example, the atomic bomb, a lot of things that they've been reproached to Oppenheimer is the fact that he