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originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: SpeakerofTruth
Albert Einstein on the splitting of the atom: "If I would have known what the splitting of the was to be used for, I would have retained my findings to myself."
Wasn't the letter he wrote a direct appeal to build the bomb before the Nazis? I thought? Otherwise why write it?
Gonna have to check on that.
originally posted by: VegHead
Why is it with psychics, they are often "close but no banana" when it comes to names? Here we have Lisa instead of Elsa. And Alfer, Alferman (etc) instead of Alfred?
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: schuyler
Nothings changed.
He did have regrets later in life.
originally posted by: SpeakerofTruth
a reply to: EchoesInTime
None of this equates to "Albert Einstein building the bomb." Robert Oppenheimer made the atomic bomb
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: SpeakerofTruth
a reply to: EchoesInTime
None of this equates to "Albert Einstein building the bomb." Robert Oppenheimer made the atomic bomb
He directed the efforts, but the engineers at Los Alamos came up with the design.
The gun type uranium (little boy) and the Plutonium implosion (Fatman) devices were not envisioned by either Einstein or Oppenheimer.
In addition, they rarely get proportions or numbers right, often get events out of sequence and show little to no ability to prioritize important aspects of the target over trivial or nonsensical aspects. You might get a long winded dissertation on the toilet paper holder in the bathroom the target has used and one line on the target.