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- I'm Jean. - Robert. CHEVALIER: Haakon Chevalier. The union meeting at Serber's last month? Right, right, yes. Oh, thank you. CHEVALIER: Robert here says he's not a Communist. Well, then he doesn't know enough about it. Oh, I've read Das Kapital, all three volumes. Does that count? It would make you better read than most party members. Turgid stuff. There's some thinking, um, "Ownership is theft." - "Property." - "Property"? "Property," not "ownership." I'm sorry, I read it in the original German. CHEVALIER: (chuckles) Well.
Oppenheimer
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It's not about the book. It's about the ideas. And you sound uncommitted. Well, I'm committed to thinking freely about how to improve our world. Why limit yourself to one dogma? You're a physicist, you pick and choose rules? Or do you use the discipline to channel your energies into progress? I like a little wiggle room. Do you always tow the party line? I like my wiggle room too.
Oppenheimer
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- I'll bite. - I tried to poison my tutor. Did you hate him? I liked him very much. You just needed to get laid. Took my analyst two years, and I don't think they ever put it that succinctly. You have everyone convinced you're more complicated than you actually are. We're all simple souls, I guess. I'm not.
Oppenheimer
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What do you know about quantum mechanics? I have a grasp on the basics. Then you're doing it wrong. (classical music playing) Is light made up of particles or waves? Quantum mechanics says it's both. How could it be both? - It can't. - It can't. But it is. It's paradoxical, and yet, it works.
Oppenheimer
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Robert. I want you to meet Chevalier. Dr. Haakon Chevalier, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer. - Pleasure. - Pleasure. This is my little brother, Frank. - And this is... - Hello. - Still Jackie. - Hello, Still Jackie. Chevalier, you're in languages? And your reputation precedes you. - What have you heard? - MARY: Excuse me. That you're teaching a radical new approach to physics I have no chance of understanding, but I hadn't heard you're a Party member. - Uh, I'm not. - Oh, not yet. Frank and I are thinking of joining. Just the other day, - I was saying... - I support a range of causes. CHEVALIER: The Spanish Civil War? A democratic republic being overthrown by fascist thugs, who wouldn't? Our government. They think that socialism is a bigger threat than fascism. ROBERT: Not for long. Look at what the Nazis are doing to the Jews. I send funds to colleagues in Germany to emigrate. I have to do something. (sighs) My own work is so abstract. What are you working on? What happens to the stars when they die. Do stars die? Well, if they do, they'd cool, then collapse. In fact, the bigger the star, - the more violent its demise. - (explosions) The gravity gets so concentrated it swallows everything. Everything, even light. Can that really happen? The math says it can. If we can get published, then perhaps one day, an astronomer finds one. But right now, all I have is theory, which can't impact people's lives. Well, if you're going to send money to Spain, do it through the Communist Party. They can get it to the front lines. Mary sent me with these.
Oppenheimer
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Seriously, keep it out of the lab. Well, out of the lab, my landlady is having a discussion group tonight. Interested? I have sampled the Berkeley political scene. It's all just philosophy post-grads and Communists talking integration. You don't care about integration. I want to vote for it, not talk about it. 'Specially on a Friday. Come on, let's eat. (sighs) I'm meeting my brother there. SENATOR BARTLETT: And how would these activities have come to the attention of the FBI? Well, if I remember correctly, the FBI was taking license plates outside suspected Communist gatherings, and his name popped up.
Oppenheimer