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.
@louisepitre742910 ай бұрын
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.
@PostMortar2 ай бұрын
Make that 35,000. A man who had quite a way with words.
@eyloneliyahukrause7518 Жыл бұрын
So much education compressed in one lecture. Always a pleasure to listen to J. R. Oppenheimer.
@Oldshop92810 ай бұрын
great mind after einstein
@coolcat238 ай бұрын
Beautiful mind, beautiful voice. This was amazing.
@alpage930611 ай бұрын
It feels like this man is still alive
@kiaruna10 ай бұрын
so true
@alpage930610 ай бұрын
@@kiaruna you are a fortunate one, let no thing steal your light!!!!
@tear7285 ай бұрын
He lives in you 🐒
@alpage93065 ай бұрын
@@tear728 lmao
@dovbarleib325610 ай бұрын
That pipe killed him, not the fact that he suffered a decade of humiliation.
@ericcommarato772710 ай бұрын
chain smoker he was...
@LifeUnscriptedPod11 ай бұрын
That discord message noise tripped me up for a second @ 18:03
@GIITW.5OKC10 ай бұрын
Same here man Im thinking wtf I cant find any notification. 17:33 got me
@gregjacksun10 ай бұрын
@@GIITW.5OKC Had me fooled for 2 or 3 of them.
@kingharlaus1758Ай бұрын
“Please do not @everyone while I am lecturing.”
@lidarman210 ай бұрын
Excellent lecture.
@_scabs6669 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@nuqwestr :
@RuthvenMurgatroyd11 ай бұрын
@@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
@biggiesmol10 ай бұрын
@@RuthvenMurgatroydThe surrender was already discussed between the Russian and the Japanese. The bomb was almost not necessary.
@dovbarleib325610 ай бұрын
@@nuqwestrWhat???? Japan surrendered unconditionally after the 2 bombs. Ww2 ended.
@tobiaskuhn19932 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading such an interesting lecture 👍 I wonder if there are more recordings of Oppenheimer speeches
@vsrr832 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Oppenheimer lectures are widely available. There are more than a dozen on KZfaq alone.
@topdog5252 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ginger22ly10 ай бұрын
Look on KZfaq
@Alex-jb4ke Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@James-ll3jb11 ай бұрын
Symmetry always fascinated me...😊
@mattbartlett0 Жыл бұрын
Starts @ 3:58
@ummglick9 ай бұрын
“ i have become the destroyer of worlds”
@mezo7227110 ай бұрын
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.
@freyc19 ай бұрын
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.
@howardleekilby7390 Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@cookiecrumbles294810 ай бұрын
No mention of quarks yet .. have to wait a few more years.
@kandasamym660010 ай бұрын
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
@marlenefumagalli725210 ай бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏👏
@baliarch Жыл бұрын
Ich achte den Man sehr hoch
@eze35725 күн бұрын
Everyone is death at many times throughout life.
@eze35725 күн бұрын
I flippin’ hate how commercials waste my very limited time!!!! Please let’s stop commercial bombardment please!
@mezo7227110 ай бұрын
At around 19 minutes, I don't understand. Why couldn't you place one of your hand on the top of the other?
@karnamadiaries92979 ай бұрын
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
@jv-co9vc2 жыл бұрын
18:06
@sizzla1232 жыл бұрын
Scientia Potentia Est
@grikney Жыл бұрын
If there is a god, science will find it
@spactick10 ай бұрын
if? if there wasn't you wouldn't be here nor would i
@athelstanrex10 ай бұрын
@@Blakalomyhe’s not necessarily religious tho?
@tablefork32489 ай бұрын
@@spactickI don’t think you give nature enough credit
@spactick9 ай бұрын
@@tablefork3248 nature and all that it interacts with are God
@meowwwww63503 жыл бұрын
I've become death and the destroyer of the worlds
@maybe8205 Жыл бұрын
your mother has become the destroyer of the worlds
@mrno.736610 ай бұрын
The German Jews mind were brilliant Just Google it
@alankuntz649410 ай бұрын
Yeah, nobody's ever heard that before right😂
@mikemullenix69566 ай бұрын
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
@susanisrael51545 ай бұрын
Fictitive beings have nothing to do with it.
@EvaFariou2 ай бұрын
Maybe because there is no God... For sure!
@mikemullenix69562 ай бұрын
@@EvaFariou so you say .
@pvandck2 ай бұрын
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?
@zoozolplexOne Жыл бұрын
Q
@EvaFariou2 ай бұрын
Great mind, but small soul. Rest in peace Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
@_scabs6669 Жыл бұрын
Pretty friendly for one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of humankind!
@_scabs6669 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Is "ignorance bliss"? I've always wanted to know.
@georgegonzalez247610 ай бұрын
Not even close. Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, they all killed tens of millions. This guy probably saved a million or more lives.
@Colin-kh6kp10 ай бұрын
The Japanese murdered over ten million Chinese people during the war, just saying.
@tablefork32489 ай бұрын
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.
@dovbarleib325610 ай бұрын
That pipe killed him, not the fact that he suffered a decade of humiliation.
@alankuntz649410 ай бұрын
He smoked a lot of cigarettes too .He was a chain smoker.
@Lucky-sh1dm10 ай бұрын
@@alankuntz6494facts it was the darts that took him out, pipe smoking is way way better than cigs if the pipe is kept clean