J. Robert Oppenheimer - Symmetries of Matter (1962)

Lecture at the University of Michigan

[@louisepitre7429]

I think it would warm Oppenheimer's heart to know that 60 years after he gave this lecture, 18000 more people were interested enough to listen to him teaching. I'm so grateful for his love of knowledge and for this opportunity to hear him talk about physics.

[@PostMortar]

Make that 35,000. A man who had quite a way with words.

[@mattnewhouse1781]

​​@@PostMortar38😊 have we beaten the kardashians yet? 😅

[@inspiration7754]

According to Kai Bird, an important part of his talent was that he was a polymath. “He loved quantum physics, but he also loved the deserts of New Mexico. He first went to New Mexico when he was 18 and fell in love with horseback riding and the very spartan cowboy life there. Oppenheimer also loved French poetry and the novels of Ernest Hemingway, and also learned Sanskrit when he became interested in Hindu mysticism and read the Hindu scriptures Bhagavad Gita in the original.” It was this multifaceted talent that was part of his appeal, Bird said. He differed from other theoretical physicists in that he could explain concepts in "plain language" and was also a charismatic speaker.

[@eyloneliyahukrause7518]

So much education compressed in one lecture. Always a pleasure to listen to J. R. Oppenheimer.

[@Oldshop928]

great mind after einstein

[@alpage9306]

It feels like this man is still alive

[@kiaruna]

so true

[@alpage9306]

@@kiaruna you are a fortunate one, let no thing steal your light!!!!

[@tear728]

He lives in you 🐒

[@alpage9306]

@@tear728 lmao

[@coolcat23]

Beautiful mind, beautiful voice. This was amazing.

[@LifeUnscriptedPod]

That discord message noise tripped me up for a second @ 18:03

[@GIITW.5OKC]

Same here man Im thinking wtf I cant find any notification. 17:33 got me

[@gregjacksun]

@@GIITW.5OKC Had me fooled for 2 or 3 of them.

[@kingharlaus1758]

“Please do not @everyone while I am lecturing.”

[@tobiaskuhn1993]

Thank you for uploading such an interesting lecture 👍 I wonder if there are more recordings of Oppenheimer speeches

[@vsrr83]

A lot of these audio recordings are found from university archive websites most people do not search. I guarantee that there is much much more stuff in archives around world that just has not been digitized.

[@Rkitt8]

I’m 1952 RJO have a series of five lectures on tape. Only one still exists. They recorded over the other four because they “needed the tape” 😞

[@dovbarleib3256]

Oppenheimer lectures are widely available. There are more than a dozen on KZbin alone.

[@topdog5252]

I heard there is even a possibility that in a former British Empire colony somewhere, there is a chance there lays recordings of Alan Turing’s voice, as he did a talk with the BBC but they threw out the tapes. If you are in a country where this might have been broadcast there may lay a copy somewhere, hopefully because we have no recording of his voice, and to think there was once one and we could have heard it if only they didn’t get rid of it, is tragic.

[@ginger22ly]

Look on KZbin

[@lidarman2]

Excellent lecture.

[@dovbarleib3256]

That pipe killed him, not the fact that he suffered a decade of humiliation.

[@ericcommarato7727]

chain smoker he was...

[@mattnewhouse1781]

​​@@ericcommarato7727we're not all perfect but those days were different. In the '40s people rolled their cigarettes with opium. Good times.

[@James-ll3jb]

Symmetry always fascinated me...😊

[@_scabs6669]

Last year's speaker invented the bubble chamber and won a Nobel prize. This year's speaker invented the atomic bomb and won world war two.

[@nuqwestr]

VE Day was May 8, 1945, bomb first tested July 16, 1945. Bomb may have preempted World War Three, but did not end WW2.

[@_scabs6669]

@@nuqwestr :

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

@@nuqwestr V-E was only *V* ictory in *E* urope. V-J/V-P Day wouldn't happen until _after_ the Americans dropped the bomb on Japan

[@biggiesmol]

​@@RuthvenMurgatroydThe surrender was already discussed between the Russian and the Japanese. The bomb was almost not necessary.

[@dovbarleib3256]

​@@nuqwestrWhat???? Japan surrendered unconditionally after the 2 bombs. Ww2 ended.

[@Alex-jb4ke]

Thank you!

[@mattbartlett0]

Starts @ 3:58

[@mezo72271]

How is the audio quality from this time so good? Every video I saw/heard from this time period (and earlier) had distorted, crackling audio.

[@freyc1]

I don't know what you've heard, but that's the year Bob Dylan issued his first album, the year the Beatles all started working together and just a few years before Monty Python's Flying Circus, for instance. None of which has distorted crackling audio. Even Churchill's war speeches usually don't. It just depends on the quality of the recording. It's not the 1920s.

[@ummglick]

“ i have become the destroyer of worlds”

[@eze3572]

I flippin’ hate how commercials waste my very limited time!!!! Please let’s stop commercial bombardment please!

[@kandasamym6600]

Nature is creating atom and sub atomic particle and system and symmetries. Human body is bisymmetrical Mirror that means atoms are arranged in regular ways The subject Crystallography is deally the 7 system and symmetru

[@cookiecrumbles2948]

No mention of quarks yet .. have to wait a few more years.

[@baliarch]

Ich achte den Man sehr hoch

[@eze3572]

Everyone is death at many times throughout life.

[@howardleekilby7390]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@marlenefumagalli7252]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@mezo72271]

At around 19 minutes, I don't understand. Why couldn't you place one of your hand on the top of the other?

[@karnamadiaries9297]

It won't be super imposition as your fingers are in opposite order and hence not in same order... you can face your palms together that is not super imposition.. that was my interpretation

[@meowwwww6350]

I've become death and the destroyer of the worlds

[@maybe8205]

your mother has become the destroyer of the worlds

[@mattnewhouse1781]

🥱

[@mikemullenix6956]

Why do these so called brilliant men never give God credit for the wonders of nature you would think that someone like this would acknowledge that perfect symmetry in nature is an act of creation

[@susanisrael5154]

Fictitive beings have nothing to do with it.

[@EvaFariou]

Maybe because there is no God... For sure!

[@mikemullenix6956]

@@EvaFariou so you say .

[@pvandck]

Firstly, there is no evidence to support the existence of a God. Secondly, which of the 3,000 or so Gods do you suggest should be credited? Thirdly, why do you reject the other 2,999 Gods?

[@grikney]

If there is a god, science will find it

[@spactick]

if? if there wasn't you wouldn't be here nor would i

[@athelstanrex]

@@Blakalomyhe’s not necessarily religious tho?

[@tablefork3248]

@@spactickI don’t think you give nature enough credit

[@spactick]

@@tablefork3248 nature and all that it interacts with are God

[@jv-co9vc]

18:06

[@sizzla123]

Scientia Potentia Est

[@mrno.7366]

The German Jews mind were brilliant Just Google it

[@alankuntz6494]

Yeah, nobody's ever heard that before right😂

[@zoozolplexOne]

Q

[@EvaFariou]

Great mind, but small soul. Rest in peace Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@_scabs6669]

Pretty friendly for one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of humankind!

[@_scabs6669]

Probably the most amount of people killed in such a short amount of time ever in the history of world (or since hellfire rained on Sodom and Gomorrah...)

[@nuqwestr]

Is "ignorance bliss"? I've always wanted to know.

[@georgegonzalez2476]

Not even close. Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, they all killed tens of millions. This guy probably saved a million or more lives.

[@Colin-kh6kp]

The Japanese murdered over ten million Chinese people during the war, just saying.

[@tablefork3248]

He technically didn’t even build it. He didn’t drop it. And I’d have done the same. If anyone else had done it first the US would’ve been fucked.

[@dovbarleib3256]

That pipe killed him, not the fact that he suffered a decade of humiliation.

[@alankuntz6494]

He smoked a lot of cigarettes too .He was a chain smoker.

[@Lucky-sh1dm]

@@alankuntz6494facts it was the darts that took him out, pipe smoking is way way better than cigs if the pipe is kept clean

[@tevya017]

​@@Lucky-sh1dmbased on what research.