Oppenheimer’s Confident Vulnerability
There’s a scene in the movie Oppenheimer when, as a professor at Berkeley, he leads a discussion on the collapse of a giant star. One of his students, Harland Snyder, begins to grasp the compounding effects of all that matter caving in on itself. Density increases, which increases gravity, which increases density… “It’s a viscous cycle until…” Snyder […]
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