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.

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.

@PostMortar

2 ай бұрын

Make that 35,000. A man who had quite a way with words.

So much education compressed in one lecture. Always a pleasure to listen to J. R. Oppenheimer.

@Oldshop928

10 ай бұрын

great mind after einstein

Beautiful mind, beautiful voice. This was amazing.

It feels like this man is still alive

@kiaruna

11 ай бұрын

so true

@alpage9306

11 ай бұрын

@@kiaruna you are a fortunate one, let no thing steal your light!!!!

@tear728

6 ай бұрын

He lives in you 🐒

@alpage9306

6 ай бұрын

@@tear728 lmao

Excellent lecture.

Thank you!

That discord message noise tripped me up for a second @ 18:03

@GIITW.5OKC

11 ай бұрын

Same here man Im thinking wtf I cant find any notification. 17:33 got me

@gregjacksun

11 ай бұрын

@@GIITW.5OKC Had me fooled for 2 or 3 of them.

@kingharlaus1758

2 ай бұрын

“Please do not @everyone while I am lecturing.”

Symmetry always fascinated me...😊

That pipe killed him, not the fact that he suffered a decade of humiliation.

@ericcommarato7727

11 ай бұрын

chain smoker he was...

Thank you for uploading such an interesting lecture 👍 I wonder if there are more recordings of Oppenheimer speeches

@vsrr83

2 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

2 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 KZread 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.

@ginger22ly

11 ай бұрын

Look on KZread

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 :

@RuthvenMurgatroyd

11 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

@biggiesmol

11 ай бұрын

​@@RuthvenMurgatroydThe surrender was already discussed between the Russian and the Japanese. The bomb was almost not necessary.

@dovbarleib3256

11 ай бұрын

​@@nuqwestrWhat???? Japan surrendered unconditionally after the 2 bombs. Ww2 ended.

Starts @ 3:58

“ i have become the destroyer of worlds”

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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

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.

@freyc1

10 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.

👏👏👏👏👏👏

No mention of quarks yet .. have to wait a few more years.

I flippin’ hate how commercials waste my very limited time!!!! Please let’s stop commercial bombardment please!

Ich achte den Man sehr hoch

18:06

Everyone is death at many times throughout life.

Scientia Potentia Est

If there is a god, science will find it

@spactick

11 ай бұрын

if? if there wasn't you wouldn't be here nor would i

@athelstanrex

11 ай бұрын

@@Blakalomyhe’s not necessarily religious tho?

@tablefork3248

9 ай бұрын

@@spactickI don’t think you give nature enough credit

@spactick

9 ай бұрын

@@tablefork3248 nature and all that it interacts with are God

At around 19 minutes, I don't understand. Why couldn't you place one of your hand on the top of the other?

@karnamadiaries9297

9 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

I've become death and the destroyer of the worlds

@maybe8205

Жыл бұрын

your mother has become the destroyer of the worlds

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

@susanisrael5154

6 ай бұрын

Fictitive beings have nothing to do with it.

@EvaFariou

3 ай бұрын

Maybe because there is no God... For sure!

@mikemullenix6956

3 ай бұрын

@@EvaFariou so you say .

@pvandck

2 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?

The German Jews mind were brilliant Just Google it

@alankuntz6494

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, nobody's ever heard that before right😂

Q

Great mind, but small soul. Rest in peace Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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.

@georgegonzalez2476

11 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-kh6kp

11 ай бұрын

The Japanese murdered over ten million Chinese people during the war, just saying.

@tablefork3248

9 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.

That pipe killed him, not the fact that he suffered a decade of humiliation.

@alankuntz6494

11 ай бұрын

He smoked a lot of cigarettes too .He was a chain smoker.

@Lucky-sh1dm

11 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

@tevya017

10 ай бұрын

​@@Lucky-sh1dmbased on what research.