Excellent writing. I lost my patience to uncovering such details, although it was fun and inspiring. Not any more - which is why I truly appreciate the thorough work like yours.
The scene, even if it had no real-life predecessor, shows nicely how scientists (may / like to) think and why they are (almost) all wrong. Incidentally, many such discrepancies (gaps) in logical thinking are ascribed to the biggest names, Freud and Einstein being just a few examples. Completed with “true” fantasies of the cornerstones of modern “science” (Darwin, human genome project actors, etc.), these incidents give us a terrifying view of how completely blindly we are, all the time covering up the absence of common sense with various measures.
Excellent writing. I lost my patience to uncovering such details, although it was fun and inspiring. Not any more - which is why I truly appreciate the thorough work like yours.
I took a different take on the movie: https://thepathishere.substack.com/p/oppenheimer
The scene, even if it had no real-life predecessor, shows nicely how scientists (may / like to) think and why they are (almost) all wrong. Incidentally, many such discrepancies (gaps) in logical thinking are ascribed to the biggest names, Freud and Einstein being just a few examples. Completed with “true” fantasies of the cornerstones of modern “science” (Darwin, human genome project actors, etc.), these incidents give us a terrifying view of how completely blindly we are, all the time covering up the absence of common sense with various measures.