So, you're a biologist. Well, somehow I have graduated to housewife. Can you explain quantum mechanics to me? Seems baffling. Yes, it is. Well, this glass, this drink... - (knocks countertop) - this countertop, uh, our bodies... all of it. It's mostly empty space. Groupings of tiny energy waves bound together. By what? Forces of attraction strong enough to convince us that matter is solid. Stop my body passing through yours.
Oppenheimer
6s
What's this? Sanskrit. You can read this? I'm learning.
Oppenheimer
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Ah. So, I'm getting married. - Frank. Congratulations! - Thank you. - Thank you. - To Jackie? - Yeah, to Jackie. - (clears throat) The waitress. Oppie, you're right. It's lettin' up. I'm gonna go see if there's any stars. All your talk about the common man, but Jackie's not good enough for you, hmm? ROBERT: Mm-mm. We join the Party and you can't - hide your disapproval. Why? - Oh, now, I... Is that because that's supposed to be your thing? I haven't joined the Party, Frank. And I don't think she should have convinced you to either. Half of the faculty is Communist. Not that half.
Oppenheimer
1.5s
This'll do. (clicks tongue)
Oppenheimer
18.3s
Ideology got Joe killed. For nothing. Spanish Republic isn't nothing. My husband offered both our futures to stop one fascist bullet from embedding itself in a mudbank. That's the definition of nothing. Seems a little reductive. Pragmatic. Now here I am.
Oppenheimer
15.3s
LAWRENCE: You shouldn't let them bring up politics in the classroom, Oppie. I wrote that. Lawrence, you embrace the revolution in physics. Can't you see it everywhere else? Picasso, Stravinsky, Freud, Marx. LAWRENCE: Well, this is America, Oppie. We had our revolution.
Oppenheimer
1.9s
So you take Theoretical.
Oppenheimer
10.5s
"And now I am become Death. Destroyer of worlds."
Oppenheimer
5.2s
You know analysis? When I was in post-grad at Cambridge, I had a little trouble.
Oppenheimer
4.1s
ROBERT: That mesa we saw today, one of my favorite places in the world.
Oppenheimer
1.8s
Why not?
Oppenheimer
12.4s
No, thank you. It's a long way to Zurich. You get any skinnier, we're gonna lose you between the seat cushions. I'm Rabi. Oppenheimer. I caught your lecture on molecules. Caught some of it.
Oppenheimer
2.3s
There's a German you have to seek out.
Oppenheimer
8.8s
Bombard it with neutrons. ALVAREZ: It's a nuclear fission. They did it, they split the atom. It's not possible. (stimulating music playing)
