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Snippets from a book review: “Albert Einstein, lone wolf; Max Born, anxious hypochondriac; Werner Heisenberg, intensely ambitious; ....” Philosophers were humans. Let’s see snippets of their lives.

yvilletom 8 Jan 21
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And then philosophers became scientists. How would you describe Robert Oppenheimer?

Arachne Level 6 Apr 8, 2020

“Oppie” was not among those described in the About this book but your question moved me to read all of the compromised Wikipedia article on him. Describe him? After you. (I read your bio too.)

@yvilletom I see him as a man with great regret and perhaps broken. The project that he undertook was done with the possibility that the world could end, but proceed they did. Oh, it was a success alright. He was too. However, it weighed heavy upon him. Not so much that he could have had the world explode, but that his project and he took from Manhattan to Trinity caused the loss of so many lives. He became death.

Edit: I forgot to ask you how you would describe him? It is okay to use elaborate.

@yvilletom I have a great story to share that someone shared with me. Let me know if it would be alright. It has to do with Oppenheimer.

@Arachne
I know only what was in the 1940s-50s news, nothing personal.
In the Wiki article I didn’t count the number of women suicides. There were two on my father’s side of the family, one of them his twin, and there was some violence. A connection?
Was O’s depression bomb-related, or was it what every thinking person knows.
Did he foresee humankind’s ruling classes frightening themselves into peace?
Do tell the great story.

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What book; who wrote the review?

BirdMan1 Level 8 Jan 23, 2020

The book is The Quantum Ten by Sheilla Jones about the 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels. The text is in the “About this book” page at Amazon’s Kindle website. I see it when, with my Kindle, I do a search on a book title. Seeing it may require a Kindle. Amazon does not identify who wrote the text.

@yvilletom I've read about that conference, have now put th book on my reading list, thanks.

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Strange. Too general opinion.

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