Nuclear Engineer Reacts and Breaks Down OPPENHEIMER Trailer

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The Atomic Age

Жыл бұрын

See the trailer here: • Oppenheimer | Official...

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@charlesp.kalina4162 Жыл бұрын

The thing with the support cables was called the "rope trick". The flash heats and vaporizes the cables before the fireball reaches them. So it looks like the fireball is extending along the cables, but actually it's a separate effect. Later tests painted or wrapped the cables in various materials, and the rope tricks were more or less prominent depending on how reflective the material was. I have entirely too many neurons devoted to this kind of trivia.

@mikebockey4125 Жыл бұрын

it’s great to see you again, charlie. i’m no scientist but i have enjoyed all your videos thus far. thanks

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, and thank you, too! Good to see you also :)

@entropyachieved750 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see you back doing vids

@NocnaDusza Жыл бұрын

Wow, I did not know about this movie... I'd have to watch it when it comes out. Thank you for bringing it to my attention

@markwatkins6882 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Man,definitely looking forward to seeing movie,fascinating !!!

@mattwise8597 Жыл бұрын

Missed your videos bro, love your channel and love the content. I love anything to do with the history of nuclear warfare or nuclear engineering. It has always fascinated me, keep up the good work and I can't wait to see this movie

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! It means a lot. Oh, yes, it is such a fascinating field, I love being a part of it and trying to make it accessible for everyone

@Maverick25ish 8 ай бұрын

at 1:42 the bowl full of marbles, i think the bowl represents how much uranium is needed for the bomb, and the marbles is how much material they have actually collected, and this point of the movie with the bowl almost full of marbles shows they have collected enough uranium for the bomb

@eacaraxe Жыл бұрын

With regards to the cables at trinity...I want to say (and I could be incorrect or inaccurate) it was the result of the neutron and gamma radiation pulse. The wires vaporized, and caused secondary explosions from the rapid expansion and heat differential.

@TheTransporter007 Жыл бұрын

The actor that portrayed oppie in Fat Man/Little Boy was *MUCH* more famous as his portrayal of Murdock on the 1980's hit TV series "The A-Team" but you're not old enough to know that. 😅

@MaxCarponera Жыл бұрын

1:20 That central sphere is not the plutonium pit, that's the natural uranium pusher/tamper surrounding it. Rest of all, I agree.

@vesaversion298 Жыл бұрын

2:05 I think they are trying to show how compactly atoms are squished together such that the energy released from one instantly triggers a chain reaction and monstrously multiplies the explosive effect.

@rsutherland76 Жыл бұрын

"Why is this happening right now," words you never want to hear a nuke saftey engineer say.

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

haha if you see me running, try to keep up!

@zDerezzed Жыл бұрын

Love the channel bro! Wasn't a fan of Inception?!? What?

@nicholaspanagotopulos9323 Жыл бұрын

2 of my favorite things combined, nuclear power and Christopher Nolan movies

@rarted5708 Жыл бұрын

For sure going to be a visually stunning movie. The spikes extending out are the result of the rope trick effect if anyone is curious.

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

thanks for that! fascinating effect that is, i might have to make a follow up video on that

@rarted5708 Жыл бұрын

@@TheAtomicAgeCM I'd love to see a breakdown of the first second of a nuclear detonation by you.

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

that could be fun!

@taylorius Жыл бұрын

The explosion vaporised the metal cables (and plasmalised them, if that's a word) - the fiery protrusion is the cables themselves as incandescent gas.

@longlakeshore Жыл бұрын

Steel conducts energy faster than air which is why it was slightly ahead of the fireball.

@SubvertTheState Жыл бұрын

I think the fireball looked that way because the cables turned into a luminous plasma before the fireball expanded.

@matthayward7889 11 ай бұрын

I saw Oppenheimer last night, and one of the first things I thought watching it was “I can’t wait to watch the atomic age episode on this!”

@TheAtomicAgeCM 11 ай бұрын

nice! it's going to be several weeks longer for the breakdown, until the movie comes out on streaming

@hiltibrant1976 Жыл бұрын

Was that... Dwight Schultz who played Oppenheimer in Fatman/Little Boy???

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

yes indeed! i forgot to annotate who the author was

@SanDukey Жыл бұрын

I know this is an old video now, but in regards to the spurs shooting down the metal cables around 4:35, i saw a video somewhere saying that high-powered X-rays shot down the cables and energized them to the point that they exploded

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

Yep, it's crazy! And not even shot down them, just shined on them from the explosion

@radio2712 Жыл бұрын

I think the jars scene is about saturation property of strong nuclear force or it may be about critical mass .

@toolthoughts Жыл бұрын

that's a pretty good bane :D

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

lol thank you

@Noutchka Жыл бұрын

That actor was also Murdock in the A-team!

@justinthomas7222 Жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with the derpa-cam. Just an opp to try out stop-motion. 😁 The lighter side of heavy metals I guess.

@christosvoskresye Жыл бұрын

He looks like Slender Man, minus the tentacles.

@plutoniumcore Жыл бұрын

Not sure if you watched the movie The Manhattan Project with John Lithgow, but it would be cool if you could review it.

@scrungo8635 Жыл бұрын

Killian murphy looks great as g-man

@rarted5708 Жыл бұрын

I'll never not see this now, thanks lol

@Damiana_Dimock Жыл бұрын

Have you seen the film from the ‘90s, Chain Reaction?

@jpotter2086 Жыл бұрын

Noticed no mention of Tenet the various times Nolan movies were listed. Not that the presenter was trying to give a comprehensive list. Poor Tenet.

@harr77 Жыл бұрын

On the subject of Christopher Nolan films. Did you not see Interstellar?

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

Oh, yeah I have. Forgot to mention that one. There are things I really like in it and things I feel meh about.

@elbryan9 Жыл бұрын

If I had to guess, the marbles are a demonstration to explain how to achieve critical mass by cutting the volume of the core; something that was a lot smaller than the method they were going to use with the uranium fueled bomb.

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

yeah i think that makes sense

@elbryan9 Жыл бұрын

@@TheAtomicAgeCM Guess we'll find out once the movie comes out. Really looking forward to July now!

@dksiix Жыл бұрын

nice after a lifetime of wait, 2 divorces , 7 children and 3 new whole identities i finnally see another atomic age video

@markkozlowski3674 Жыл бұрын

If you want to read one of the most thought-provoking essays in the English language, seek out "Thank God for the Atom Bomb", by the late Paul Fussell, a literary critic and combat veteran of World War II.

@RovingPunster Жыл бұрын

My sister in law's late father worked on the Manhattan Project as a chemist. Anyway, my concern about movies like these is that although they are incredibly valuable for historical immersion, I worry that each of these different films may be supplying missing pieces of the nuclear weapons puzzle, and could help foster nuclear proliferation. Nuclear WMDs are a truly horrific and nightmarish thing, and are a terrible responsibility that could be abused for catastrophic purposes. I lived and served (in the defense industry) thru the Cold War . . It's nauseating enough that WE here in the US have them, but can you imagine how much worse off the global situation would be if they were in the hands of radical islamists (e.g. Iran, et al), paranoid dictatorial kleptocrats (ex: n.korea), et al ? Not a complete list by any stretch. Movies like these are not just entertainment ... they're cause for worry.

@TheAtomicAgeCM Жыл бұрын

nice! My grandfather was a chemical engineer in the Manhattan Project. I wouldn't worry about these movies, there are much better pieces of open information on the internet that talk about how nuclear bombs work (look up how nuclear bombs work on KZfaq for a rather detailed, but unclassified, presentation about nuclear weapons from Harvard). But, nuclear bombs aren't rare because this information is hard to come across (modern nuclear weapon specifics are still very secret) but because it's still so hard and takes a nation-state to be able to make nuclear weapons. terrorists would have to buddy up with some bad regime or steal a nuke. A poor country like North Korea has had to spend an absurd percentage of its GDP on developing nuclear weapons. It's very hard to make centrifuges without someone noticing, it's very hard to make plutonium reactors without someone noticing. It's very hard to test nuclear bombs, borderline impossible, without someone noticing. But, yeah, the fewer the better.

@AverageJoesGardening 6 ай бұрын

Bro there's a difference between a raw reaction to a trailer and literally stopping every frame to give a long diatribe about what you know

@milosstojanovic4623 Жыл бұрын

Wait what !? Inception was masterpiece, Interstellar also. All of his movies are amazing. Tenet was average, but still good action movie.

@TheTransporter007 Жыл бұрын

Hopefully this isn't a woke character assassination.

@HistoryCity1 Жыл бұрын

If they do anything like that, it would be a shame to Oppenheimer as a man. He was incredibly supportive of Civil Rights, even for his time. He was a New Deal leftist that supported any economic measure that would benefit African Americans.