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In reply to the discussion: Too Late to Apologize! James Webb Telescope New study just made the "crisis in cosmology" WORSE... [View all]usonian
(24,448 posts)35. He regretted one thing.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240801-it-was-the-one-great-mistake-in-my-life-the-letter-from-einstein-that-ushered-in-the-age-of-the-atomic-bomb
And look who has become Shiva, destroyer of worlds, now.
On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote to the US President Franklin D Roosevelt. His letter would result in the Manhattan Project, and one of history's most significant and destructive inventions.
The dramatic account of the lethal harnessing of atomic power told in the 2023 blockbuster film Oppenheimer might have been nothing more than science fiction had a two-page letter, dated 2 August 1939, never been written.
"Recent work in nuclear physics made it probable that uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy," reads a typed letter to US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed by hand by the esteemed physicist Albert Einstein. (and Leo Szilard) This energy, he continues, could be used "for the construction of extremely powerful bombs".
The dramatic account of the lethal harnessing of atomic power told in the 2023 blockbuster film Oppenheimer might have been nothing more than science fiction had a two-page letter, dated 2 August 1939, never been written.
"Recent work in nuclear physics made it probable that uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy," reads a typed letter to US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed by hand by the esteemed physicist Albert Einstein. (and Leo Szilard) This energy, he continues, could be used "for the construction of extremely powerful bombs".
And look who has become Shiva, destroyer of worlds, now.
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Too Late to Apologize! James Webb Telescope New study just made the "crisis in cosmology" WORSE... [View all]
Sancho
Tuesday
OP
Exactly, "...the way the textbooks promised" sounds like something a pseudo-scientist would say
William Seger
Tuesday
#7
Yeah, but putting the word "crisis" in the headline makes for more clicks...
Wounded Bear
Tuesday
#15
very cool! But does anyone know what that little cartoon image is, in the middle of the cover picture? It looks like a
LymphocyteLover
Tuesday
#13
We haven't been around very long in terms of what we see as the age of the Cosmos.
patphil
Tuesday
#17
Compared to the Universe (13.8 billion years): Humans have been present for roughly 0.002%...
Ol Janx Spirit
Tuesday
#22