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oppenheimer at least knew that the nukes weren't like a really big (or really compact) conventional weapon.
it may have been from watching the test at alamogordo (one of the great apocalyptic moments, i am become death destroyer of worlds)
einstein's relation to the manhattan project was what exactly? i mean beyond being part of the crew that tipped the us to the german uranium enrichment project and so set the manhattan project into motion?
thinking about this a little, from a remove, i wonder sometimes about the way the atomic bomb intertwined with public perception/imaginings about relativity theory. it kinda dissolves a newtonian world, yes? makes mechanical causation into a region-specific phenomenon...that's a pretty considerable break with "common sense" relations to the world.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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