Physicist Reacts to New Oppenheimer Trailer

[@AndreJHoward]

It's a story about Oppenheimer that is meant to entertain. Not be a documentary. Let's all keep that in mind because Nolan has never failed to make an awesome movie.

[@petethepeg2]

yeah ,I know what you mean ! Some nights I just watch Holocaust movies, not for the history, but for the entertainment. They`re awesome !

[@AndreJHoward]

@@petethepeg2 Oh edgy sarcasm .. how clever

[@cotati76]

I agree wholeheartedly. There were thousands of people that worked on the bomb. You can’t make a movie about all of them. That’s what documentaries are for.

[@BucksPackersBrewers]

@@petethepeg2 Oh ok so you think Schindler’s list was a documentary? Done properly, a movie can absolutely take real history, portray it accurately (while maybe not perfectly), and dramatize it in order to make it entertaining and appealing to a wide audience. Entertaining doesn’t have to mean feel-good. Stop being an asshole, and DEFINITELY stop using the Holocaust to make the shitty point you’re being an asshole about.

[@Boxingblocks9778]

That is why it's a biopic and it's dramatized about Oppenheimer's life. I heard that film will be fateful to the history about the Manhattan Project and his experience there.

[@1neOfN0ne]

I think, even from just the trailer, it's pretty apparent this movie isn't going to make it seem like Oppenheimer is solely responsible for the Atomic bomb and that it took a team of scientists. The movie is called Oppenheimer because it focuses on the life of Oppenheimer before and after this world changing event.

[@ihswap]

True the actual work on the bomb was only like 1/3rd of the movie and the bomb itself was like a 6 minute scene. The whole movie is about Oppenheimer's life between university to his security hearings and the trials and tribulations he faced with his political affiliations, personal relationships and the Manhattan project.

[@kevingrover1554]

Oppenheimer wasn't so much the 'face' of the bomb, nor was he the 'one who gave it to us'. He DID organize the scientists in a manner that had not been done before. Without his ability to unify the scientists toward a single goal, it may not have come to fruition.

[@TheFetus132]

That's how I see it too.

[@AgentOccam]

Yes, it may not have come to fruition. Or fusion, you might say.

[@AgentOccam]

....And yes I know I know, the atom bomb involved fission not fusion, but I couldn't resist the pun.

[@beingandtime]

Well his face was on the cover of TIME Magazine with the caption “The father of the Atomic bomb.” lol

[@mp9810]

The film did a great job of making his role clear. He was the planner, the coordinator, the manager. It's very obvious how much of a team effort it was, and I LOVED all the little nods to absolute titanic figures in the history of science.

[@StarkerOfLands]

I literally can not wait for Oppenheimer to come out. SO PUMPED Edit: As of today on July 24 2023 I have seen Oppenheimer in cineplex and it is the greatest movie ever made so far. Please watch it if you haven't

[@erenjaeger1738]

I can't wait for the Japan scenes 🥵

[@NotFlightt]

dude me too, i got the day off in advanced just to see it opening night in imax

[@StarkerOfLands]

@@NotFlightt Well that sounds good

[@Antares383]

@@erenjaeger1738 1945 the fall of the Japanese empire.

[@cotati76]

I just bought my iMac tickets for the 22nd. Can’t wait. It’ll only be the second real movie I’ve seen in imax.

[@gardenshock51]

Someone came out of the theaters and said it felt more like he watched a real life horror film. Also, Matt Damon made a promise to take a break from acting, unless he got a call from Nolan. He got a call from Nolan lol

[@jonv8177]

Actually it was the theoretical work of Enrico Fermi that led to the idea of an atomic bomb being plausible. Also the letter from physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner the Einstein-Szilard letter. They included Einstein thinking his name would get Roosevelt's attention. Oppenheimer was seen as the only scientist all the others would listen to because while he was considered a "maverick," everyone acknowledged he was brilliant. Lastly, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Oppenheimer that went to see Einstein, but Edward Teller.

[@furiousscotsman2916]

It owes itself to just about every other piece of physics research ever done, science is achieved as one man said "on the shoulders of giants" so although we revere certain scientists it really would have been discovered by someone else in a different time at a different place. No one person built the nuclear bomb no 10 people did either without the work of those before them and that work also based on the work of others and so on.

[@krisr4285]

Fermi is such a wild character in history

[@gaborrajnai6213]

Well, he was chosen by Groves, most likely because he found Oppenheimer the easiest pick to work with. Most of the other scientists had certain reservations about the military.

[@haleydoe644]

Einstein wanted nothing to do with it.

[@LoudounDemocrat]

Einstein was vacationing on Long Island, New York when he was visited by Szilard and Wigner. They spent two days with him and convinced him that a) atomic weapons were viable and b) that the United States / Allies needed to get one before Hitler did.

[@WarrenAppel]

He was the organizer who kept it together. A lot of brilliant people couldn’t run a lemonade stand.

[@krisoide4866]

The movie did well to show that it was not just oppenheimer who made the bomb. This movie is just his in the sense that its about him. Throughout it he was shown to want the other scientists and did not want any of them to leave the project and was asking others for help.

[@gabrielmora6144]

Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer is so insane in a tentatively good way.

[@kdpowers]

2:58 "until somebody builds a bigger bomb..." Spoiler: The guy saying this does. Edward Teller.

[@xPeopleKindx]

"We're going to watch it through once then come back and talk about it" Proceeds to pause & talk every 10 seconds

[@justinholtman]

I think Christopher did a good job showing it wasn’t just Oppenheimer, especially the end he shakes the other physicists hands and u can also tell the whole movie he cares about his other ppls thoughts.

[@deannamarie8389]

It's a biopic, a biography of Oppenheimer. So the story mainly focuses on him and his part in the Manhattan Project and includes stuff to show his grief/shame in the aftermath of the human toll from the bomb. Also, it does show all the other physicists on the Manhattan Project. *You do meet Heisenberg in the film *they filmed at the actual locations where all this occurred. The first sustained nuclear reaction that actually happened was under the stands of a football field, they filmed the scene in the movie about that under those same stands. *the scenes in Oppenheimer's house in the movie were filmed inside Oppenheimer's actual home. The movie is phenomenal.

[@angelofrebellion763]

Agreed. How is this comment not sitting with more likes? This movie was fantastic.

[@TheMakersRage]

Oppenheimer was the face of the bomb. A great administrator and American, which was important for the US public considering all the science was actually achieved mainly by Germans (as well as a couple hungarians and a certain Italian 😅)

[@robertjulianoph.d.1423]

Of course, the science (and engineering) which led to the fission discovered by Otto Hahn, the model and interpretation of which was made by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, was achieved by centuries of international cooperation of scientists, not "mainly by Germans."

[@anthonyburn1010]

Yes, though to be fair, Oppenheimer was no slouch on the science front, especially in the realm of Quantum Physics.

[@robertjulianoph.d.1423]

@@anthonyburn1010 : Physics Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, a critical member of the Manhattan Project, said in an interview that Oppenheimer was, by far, the most intelligent of all of them.

[@TheMakersRage]

@@anthonyburn1010 They wouldn't have chosen a slouch to head the program in fairness. They'd do it now, but not then 😁

[@TheMakersRage]

@@robertjulianoph.d.1423 Well that's clearly nonsense, and I think Bethe was being diplomatic.

[@ninadiamant8937]

Another lesson learnt : If ALL scientists united and were given resources to experiment, then almost all out problems would be solved.

[@robertjulianoph.d.1423]

Some points: A. With respect to the danger of people leaving this trailer thinking that it was only Oppenheimer who developed the bomb, I hear you. But, many people already see it that way. Furthermore, it is exceedingly difficult to bring the required nuance to a 2-3 minute trailer. Richard Rhodes required almost 1,000 pages in his Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" to bring that kind of nuance. At the height of the Manhattan Project, around 130,000 people were employed, many of them in three categories of chemical plants performing the essential task of uranium enrichment through gaseous diffusion, centrifuge, and electromagnetic separation. B. There were two designs developed to achieve critical mass - the gun design (not implosion) using highly enriched-uranium and the spherical implosion design using plutonium [thus, there were two "gadgets" - the gun "gadget" and the implosion "gadget"]. The implosion "gadget" was, by far, the more complicated of the two. "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima was the gun-type design and the Trinity test and "Fat Man" were of the implosion-type design. C. The atomic program in Japan was far more advanced than the one in Nazi Germany. Their main problem was the lack of availability of nuclear material. D. Richard Feynman defended his doctoral dissertation at Princeton University in 1942, the title of which was "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics." From 1941-1942, he worked on the atomic bomb project at Princeton, and in 1943-1945 the project in Los Alamos. E. The "gadget" shown in the trailer shows the explosive lens used (i.e., explosive arrangement) so that the implosion produces "a converging wave" ["fitting the shock wave to the shape it needed to squeeze"]. F. It is not clear whether the Oppenheimer/Einstein meeting in the movie will be shown to happen before or after Trinity. G. In 1942, Oppenheimer was, indeed, concerned about the atmosphere igniting. Calculations were conducted and verified by Edward Teller, Emil Konopinski, and Hans Bethe. The final position was: "Calculation led to the result that no matter how high the temperature, energy loss would exceed energy production by a reasonable factor. ... The impossibility of igniting the atmosphere was thus assured by science and common sense." Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller, and C. Marvin prepared a report of their calculations entitled "Ignition of the Atmosphere with Nuclear Bombs" [Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-602, April 1946].

[@bonk4416]

I ain’t readin all dat 👆

[@JohannesWOW]

​@bonk4416 and I didn't read your comment either. Too short

[@vancedadder]

​@@bonk4416I did, it's fascinating

[@vancedadder]

Also, did Oppenheimer really go to meet Einstein, or was it actually Teller who went?

[@rsr789]

"With respect to the danger of people leaving this trailer thinking that it was only Oppenheimer who developed the bomb, I hear you. But, many people already see it that way. " That because the average person is a moron. Same reason why they think that Musk does everything at Tesla and / or Space X.

[@kuzzaahh3746]

So that’s why Feynman was in the car with no goggles during the test! Holyyyyy mind blown

[@joseimpact]

love how what he disliked in the trailer and questions , he will certainly get them answered and love the movie/storyline. plus nolan has actual physicist reading/helping with script

[@fasterthanthespeedofzero]

Hes called the father because not only would the bomb straight up not exist if he didn't help and use his abilities to organize people, he is the person who has the most right to that title in a sort of weird press and liabilityway, but yes he didn't do it single handed. Edit: also, don't let this guy trivialize the process, it seems simple by today's standard, but the refining tools and tech didn't exist for uranium, and the process of measuring and using it didn't exist, calculation and advanced tools didn't exist, the tech used in the bomb didn't exist, the Explosive mechanism didn't exist, the reason it was hard was because they had to basically invent all of the stuff, also they had a thought of the atmosphere ignition because they literally didn't have the time or tools to make sure.

[@Shigawire]

Who doesn't love Feynman. What a guy! I have seen most of his old lectures in black & white that are on youtube. It's pretty dense material, despite his amazing pedagogical skills, so I am not sure how much I truly understood about the direction of time, and the Feynman-diagram... XD I don't know enough basics.

[@beverlyweber4122]

Me too! I love Feynman and would have loved to hear/watch him lecture in person. But like you....I simply don't have a clue about the basics. But it sure woulda been fun!

[@atmoz5841]

Correction 10:35 The Gadget was a Plutonium based bomb. Not a Uranium based bomb. That's why they had to test Gadget before they deploy the FATMAN on Nagasaki. Because, Uranium bomb and Plutonium Bomb has a different type of working. Uranium based bomb is detonated through neuclear Fussion & Plutonium based bomb is detonated through neuclear Fission. Just had to make that clear😊

[@robertjulianoph.d.1423]

@Atmoz Gaming: Correction: There were two "gadgets": the gun "gadget" and the implosion "gadget." The implosion "gadget" employed spherical implosion design using plutonium (i.e., an explosive lens was used (i.e., explosive arrangement) so that the implosion produced "a converging wave" ["fitting the shock wave to the shape it needed to squeeze"]). Crucially, this is not fusion. This is a fission device whose critical mass is achieved by implosion. "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima was the gun-type design and "Fat Man" (and the Trinity test) was the implosion-type design. Again, both designs were fission bombs.

[@saugat_kc]

It's always good to find a fellow Feynman fanatic on the internet.

[@maxdavidyermolaev4164]

you are right that oppenheimer wasnt the only inventor of the bomb, but the movie is a bout that person's most importent part of life

[@uuvlv9605]

I mean I think the movie might cover Oppenheimer and his contribution. He had a huge contribution being the implosion aspect considering he did black hole research or whatever. I think it would cover his research, recruitment and assignment in the first act, the challenges of implosion theory and resources in the second act. Lastly it might cover the fallout, his separation from that and the red scare. But that’s what I expect, I only covered quantum physics in Pchem so I had a rundown on the history of these juggernauts so I’m extremely excited to watch this.

[@snejanaceneva3455]

id actually love it if you do a reaction or commentary on the movie itself because a lot of things you spoke about here ARE actually in it. it was a great experience!!

[@Nightsinwhitesatin645]

Trailer mentions about recruiting scientists. Oppenheimer was responsible for putting the project together which is what the trailer portrays. I think most people know that it took a group of scientists to develop The Bomb.

[@vonvard]

This was the effort of hundreds of people you're absolutely right. And its also not about one country, this was humanity at its last resort. I'm british and we were so fucked by this point, we needed help from everyone. Theres a lot of stars and stripes in this but i want people to know WE DID THIS. As a planet of good people. Love you to you all x

[@buyzaxbys1774]

Nothing wrong with people having American pride. I mean we have invented almost everything we take for granted today. The fridge, air conditioning, dishwasher, the light bulb, the nuclear bomb... and much much more. We are a melting pot of greatness.

[@ortizv84]

America, all shit aside, who did it? I swear man everyone wants to be part of everything

[@vonvard]

@@buyzaxbys1774 my apologies, i wasn't discrediting those achievements. I was just simply highlighting the war was going on for some time before the US got involved

[@buyzaxbys1774]

@VonVard no my apologies, I agree, the world War effort was a global achievement! I was just thinking specifically about the end of the war and the creation of the bomb.

[@xPeopleKindx]

@@buyzaxbys1774 LMFAO keep telling yourself that. Your achievements dont hide your faults & horrid actions.

[@jnilz4655]

After listening to the Last Podcast on the Left cover the Manhattan Project I am primed for this film! Glad I found your channel too. Great job!

[@Feargal011]

The Gadget was not a Uranium bomb (although it had a Uranium sheath around the core). The Gadget was a Plutonium bomb, similar to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The core was made of 6.1 kg Plutonium surrounding a Beryllium/Polonium moderator and could not use the 'gun' mechanism of the Little Boy Uranium bomb. As you said, the idea was to compress the Plutonium core into the neutron moderator, creating the cascading flow of neutrons that dissolved around 20% of the core into energy, and Heyo a 20kt explosion with accompanying Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiation.

[@robertjulianoph.d.1423]

No. There were two types of "gadgets": the gun "gadget" and the implosion "gadget."

[@stevec8861]

@@robertjulianoph.d.1423 I think point is 1st bomb test in NM was plutonium239 implosion bomb. They had much more Pu239 to work with than U235. The simpler gun mechanism dropped on Hiroshima only worked with U235. If gun mechanism applied to Pu239, the fission chain reaction started way too soon and bomb would blow up at very low yield well before the two pieces of Pu239 joined.

[@sodem2810]

Having seen the film now, I can say that Nolan makes it perfectly clear that other scientists contributed greatly.

[@James-ip1tc]

Oppenheimer brought all those scientists and resources together with engineers to produce the bomb. It just took a very short amount of time and no room for error to put all the puzzle pieces together. It's quite an accomplishment

[@Cryovix]

Says we are going to watch it one time through then come back and talk about it. then proceeds to pause and talk during it several times lol

[@faking2221]

The whole speech sequence after test drop was so good.

[@owensoulos4508]

don’t think you mentioned it but that clicking sound we heard during and at the end of the trailer was the sound of a geiger counter, which is the tool used to measure radiation. cool touch

[@vancedadder]

The same sound effect used in the Chernobyl series!

[@MercuryCircuit]

Just booked 2 VIP tickets at the BFI Imax at Waterloo, London. The biggest genuine Imax screen in the UK. SSssoooo looking forward to this. With Dune Part 2 coming later in the year. Anything else that shines is going to be Icing on the cake for Movies in 2023.

[@paulpena5040]

@10:12 "It's really quite simple.." One of the challenges of the implosion is that if you bring together the uranium too quickly then the implosion destroys enough of the fissiable material that only a small portion gets to react (maybe burn down a building or two) and if the implosion is too slow the fissioning starts to push back against the implosion, again, not allowing for enough use of the fissiable material and again a dud so it's really not that simple.

[@lauran.9427]

Seeing as YOU HADN'T SEEN THE MOVE YET...(I saw last night)....There is PLENTY OF EMPHASIS on OTHER PHYSICISTS that are involved...

[@boydrid]

From watching "Fat Man & Little Boy". I thought that Oppenheimer's main contribution was bringing everyone together. And getting the military to let them work and talk amongst each other. I haven't seen this one yet.

[@jamesharvey3993]

Having recently finished Richard Rhodes' "Making of the Atomic Bomb" before this film was announced, it made me so excited to see Nolan's take. I'm also a bit trepidatious about how much importance will be given to oppenheimer's role versus that of all the other hundreds of scientists who worked on the bomb, but I'm optimistic given Nolan's track record. Can't wait!

[@rickgrimes2056]

Jack Quaid played Feynman and he looks just like him! Had the bongo’s and everything

[@MarlenaBricker]

They show the freaking TEAM that was involved. Sheesh

[@ouroboros6125]

The most impressive thing to me is not the theory they used as a starting point, or the end result. It's how they were able to work on the development and process of something this dangerous to make it functional, without hurting or killing themselves in the process. Considering the destructive elements at play - wouldn't a single minor error during the development process have injured or killed the scientists? You can have 100 safety precautions at play - but a single error? Lethal radiation, premature detonation etc. I've no clue about physics or any technical stuff. My opinion on this is admittedly ignorant. However what stands out to me as the big achievement - is that they successfully developed it without destroying themselves attempting it.

[@mrsentencename7334]

They were very intelligent people

[@gaborrajnai6213]

Lol some of them died because they used screwdrivers to separate the plutonium spheres in criticality experiments, and the whole makeshift arrangement collapsed, and the core went insant supercritical irradiating everyone in the room...

[@bernierapirap6522]

nope...everyone has shared the radiation... no one escapes from it... the government did not want the information blown outside...

[@vancedadder]

​@@gaborrajnai6213source?

[@jpdemer5]

@@vancedadder The Internet.

[@Ohmriginal722]

If you want a more multi-person approach to building the bomb with maybe too much drama thrown in, the show Manhattan is quite good.

[@rsr789]

Link please.

[@WickedImmortal]

I get Scare crow vibes from Batman from Christopher Nolan in this. Also because he was kinda like a scientist in a way with his poisoned toxin shot claws.

[@Eldooodarino]

There are a lot of inaccuracies in this review. "the gadget" was the bomb detonated at the Trinity Site near Socorro, NM. It had no uranium. It was a plutonium bomb and the plutonium device had to be tested because it relied on shaped charges creating a spherically symmetric implosion that drove the metal super-critical so that the chain reaction could occur. The Trinity test was Fat Man type device just like the one dropped on Nagasaki. Little Boy was a uranium bomb and was dropped on Hiroshima. It didn't need to be tested because we knew it would work. Alvarez remarked that one could make U235 go super-critical by dropping one chunk (of U235) onto another. The plutonium weapon was far more complex.

[@x340x]

slight spoiler: the scene of the guy not wearing the googles is in the movie actually :D

[@mystik8177]

I have seen the movie and I can assure to anyone who has not seen it yet, the issue with oppenheimer is getting potrayed as he did everything is not the case in the movie, in the movie it shows how many people were a part.

[@sefhammer6276]

04:20 luckily that gets covered in the movie

[@jackprier7727]

The "Gadjet" was an implosion device using plutonium. The "Little Boy" used over Japan was a gun-type device using uranium.

[@DGGVerse25]

Watch the movie..every scientist that worked on it gets some credit

[@zerocool1ist]

One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.

[@mjelves]

Easy there, Dennis

[@GameTesterDev]

Actually... Oppenheimer said the fear of destroying the world kept him up at night for months... It was a real concern to him...

[@muhammadsohail7184]

I think they show Feynman in the first trailer and the character’s played by Jack Quaid

[@lukegates1378]

I’m here after this came out and I’ll tell you the movie makes sure you know it wasn’t only Him to do this. Obviously he’s the lead but many people work on it

[@chrismalik1579]

You feel the need to pause the 2 and a half minute trailer multiple times just to say how awesome it is like you didn't know it was gonna be awesome... i think you just like most people nowadays just like the sound of your own voice

[@NikNiquete]

Einstein wrote Roosevelt a letter warning him other countries were working on a bomb with uranium and the destruction it can ultimately cause. Which got the Manhattan project started immediately.

[@johnwatson3948]

Looks like a great movie - but for accuracy puzzled why the bombs explosive blocks are shown being handled like they don’t weigh much - well known that these were almost the weight of concrete and a chain-hoist and suction cup system was used to assemble them. Same thing where two men are shown “one handing” the insertion of the 105 pound core cylinder which was also actually done with a chain-hoist.

[@vancedadder]

maybe the core cylinder was of the test bomb not the real one

[@cloudspigtails8076]

they gave Einstein and all the other scientists their flowers dude, but this film is a character study on Oppenheimer at its core. He was the figurehead and the face of the Manhattan project. Much like how Chris Nolan is the director of his films, now there are hundreds of people who contribute to making a film whole, its the director, Chris Nolan who takes most of the credit if the film is good or bad. Same concept.

[@kevinumber7]

The genius of Oppenheimer was the whole project coming together, getting the resources, building Los Alamos from nothing. He was like walt dianey producing all the egos (like this guy who wants to a say). Only the US had the resources and it was mined, collected and tested in a way no country could do. This literally is why the US is the superpower now. I would consider this a huge moment in history. Let me ask you, could you teach at Caltech or UC Berkeley?

[@larrybell726]

There seems to be a bit of disagreement regarding the term "gadget". In 1943 when Robert Serber was tasked with briefing newly arrived scientists on the specifics of the research he used the word "bomb" in the group presentations. Problem is, one day there were some uncleared workers finishing up the room next door and Oppenheimer sent John Manley up to Serber to tell him not to use that word but use "gadget" instead, and that was the term everyone used after that, for either type of device. Also, the gun type assembly of Little Boy was considered so reliable that it was not tested before being used in combat. When I worked at Los Alamos there was a bookstore (NOT associated with the lab) that had t-shirts for sale with a drawing of Little Boy and the caption , "built in the USA, tested in Japan". Perhaps the ultimate in bad-taste t-shirts.

[@ThatGuyErazo]

3:54 well the movie answers that concern of his.

[@RustinChole]

Even Oppenheimer said Los Alamos was less a physics problem than a complex engineering problem. In terms of theoretical physics.

[@jazzdub4958]

Well said, happy to hear people state it's not Oppenheimer who single handed created the A-Bomb.

[@B20C0]

Little correction: the Gadget was an implosion type bomb made with plutonium, not uranium. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made with uranium (gun design) and wasn't even tested before being dropped because the concept of the gun design was so simple that the scientist just assumed it would work. The only issue with uranium was that it was way harder to produce sufficient amounts of than plutonium (Pu239) which could be made out of U238 in a breeder reactor. How to produce an atomic bomb was actually quite well known in the scientific community, even at that time; the main problem was to produce enough highly fissile material efficiently. That's basically the most expensive part of producing nuclear fuel to this day.

[@morganoconnell9824]

10:32 the gadget was a plutonium implosion device

[@Villainiz3d]

When you watch the movie you'll realize that the "one man" idea isn't really a thing. Yes Oppenheimer is the focal character, but at least to my perception it was pretty obvious that he couldn't do it alone.

[@tharukaepaarachchi6110]

Jack Quaid from the Boys is playing Richard Feynman.

[@Yvory6]

the guy said he would not talk at first

[@justinholtman]

I don’t know much about Heisenberg, was he really on Einsteins level?? That’s insane if so I’ve never heard of him.

[@clairejohnson6522]

'The Saboteurs' mini series here in the U.K. made 2015 would be worthwhile you watching,if you can.Also,if you ever saw 'Breaking Bad',Walter White named his alter ego after him.....Heisenberg.

[@YACINE-yi2dc]

the result is more than 50 years of recherch in physics

[@adam-vy6rk]

tbf in the movie they don't make it out to be the case that he single handedly did it at all. Thats the whole point of the first half of the movie

[@1knight386]

This dude looks like Kilmer from Batman Forever. I dig it

[@Proven2]

Great video man!

[@georgeyoung7523]

He was the project manager.... he was the only one.

[@jamesalexander5623]

I eagerly await this Film. If you want to know the whole story sit down and read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes, 1986. It's a hefty read, 886 pages but interesting and entertaining.Once you start you will want to finnish!

[@OCRay1]

They were making the point the entire trailer of recruiting the best. What are you irked about? You also can’t tell everyone’s story.

[@gaborrajnai6213]

I dont think Feinman ever worked in Los Alamos. I think he mentioned working under Wigner to calculate something about the storage of fissile materials, so it sounds like he either worked in Oak Ridge or Hanford. Not a lot of Manhattan project materials talking about these places, although they were more important, than Los Alamos itself.

[@codyash8021]

He most certainly did work inside los alamos from before the town was even fully built until the end of the project

[@kimmycupreacts]

How did I miss this live?! This irks me, Dylan.

[@alarger972]

If only this movie focused more on the Manhattan project and the effects of the bombs and less on boring Senate hearings and some security clearance trial.

[@seeker7702]

7:02 Glad you give respect to Heisenberg as much as Einstein.. Indeed wonders of Science is not just product of one Genius Mind.. But mixture of Different mind.. ❤❤❤

[@haleydoe644]

Einstein had an extra frontal lobe fold. He was extra wrinkled.

[@stephendobbs7653]

Einesteines insane conclusion that every part of the universe is moving forwards and backwards in time relative to movements in other parts of the universe is quite frankly ridiculous.

[@mrsentencename7334]

What do you mean?

[@georgegonzalez2476]

Einstein did have cosmological theories, but the forwards and backwards bit was pioneered by Wheeler and Feynman and actually made a lot of sense mathematically. Anti-particles are still modelable as their normal counterparts moving backwards in time. It's a perfectly accurate if nutty-sounding scheme.

[@ghewins]

The Gadget was a plutonium bomb, not a uranium bomb. The uranium bomb was never tested before it was dropped on Nagasaki.

[@Oldman78]

Here you go Mr. Physicist. Just because you're smart doesn't me you can't be dumb. Me I'm not smart but I'm not dumb.

[@abefrohammer3105]

You can't tell a blockbuster story tlike this without a human focal point. This would never be half as popular if the movie was about the bomb.

[@ssotkow]

It's incredible how the founding father and movers of quantum physics were all gathered in Germany where Oppenheimer was exposed to the up & coming branch of physics at the University of Göttingen. Luckily most of the brightest minds in physics fled away from fascism in Europe and found safe haven in the academia of the USA.

[@dcoughla681]

Just looked up that Tom Conti is playing Einstein. He’s completely unrecognisable. Wow.

[@IndependentConversations]

I understand that it was a collection in the group called the Manhattan project, but unless you're seeing a documentary, not a loosely based drama, people just want entertainment, not fact unless it's a true documentary.

[@AgentOccam]

To your complaint about it being about one man etc, it's an adaptation of a biography of Oppenheimer. And even in just this very trailer they make the point that a lot of great scientists etc are involved (including, indirectly, Albert Einstein). So I don't think that's valid. A story that focuses on the life (or some part thereof) of a person is by definition going to focus on that person's importance. That doesn't make it belittling of anyone else's accomplishments.

[@WarrenAppel]

You mean plutonium-implosion device. Uranium bomb was a trigger bomb

[@mrcampo19]

Hindsight being 20/20, The Nazi's were never even close to having a nuclear bomb. By that point in the war they did not have the money, industrial power, or the capability to generate the amount of energy to pull off something like the Manhattan project.

[@nikitamohan3390]

@dylanjdance jack quaid, dennis quaid and meg ryan's son, is playing feynman according to the imdb credits of this film

[@Icy_XCV]

Ayee that’s my birthday LETSS GO

[@Matt20911985]

Yes we all know the difference between orchestrating and developing. We’ve watched Steve Jobs.

[@stephendobbs7653]

Auto correct kicked it, that should read "sharleton and fantacist"

[@g.williamwoodward6676]

I don’t know, Fauci did a lot of damage to Scientist. I love Nolan, but he’s not that good.

[@rataflechera]

Of the concerns of this trailer reaction, probably the biggest miss was the overlook of British contributions. Very tangentially mentioned in some phrase, and then the storyline with Fuchs.

[@Texmexrex]

Oppenheimer didn't do everything by himself but he was in charge of basically everything. Everything involving physics and getting the best scientists at least. But it's easier for everyone to remember one name. I thought Einstein created the atomic bomb when I was in school. I never heard of Oppenheimer in American school. It's like saying Steve Jobs created the iPhone.

[@aidarosullivan5269]

My favorite physicist is either Roger Penrose or Juan Maldacena.