Tag: Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer or the Inevitability of Doom

“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.” J. Robert Oppenheimer In Hindu cosmology, the world cycles between birth, life, and destruction. At the ending stage ...

Oppenheimer Isn’t a Story About the Atomic Bomb — It’s About Ourselves

Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated film, Oppenheimer, opened in theaters over the weekend. It beat expectations raking in a whopping $80.5 million in sales. Despite the ongoing labor strike in Hollywood, its release — alongside the Barbie movie — set records. ...

The Overlooked Life of Toni Oppenheimer

Little is known by the general public or even somewhat knowledgeable crowd about the ancestral legacy left behind by J. Robert Oppenheimer, and often brushed over entirely is his daughter, Katherine “Toni” Oppenheimer. Likely attributed to the tragedy that weaved throughout her life and ...

How the movie Oppenheimer illustrates the need for theoretical…sociologists

At an early point in Oppenheimer, the title character was shown struggling in a Cambridge University physics lab. One of his professors urged the young man to leave the lab and do theoretical work elsewhere, which he did in Germany. At a later point it was mentioned, I believe by Oppenh...