all right here we go no talking everyone quiet
this is a national emergency
the goggles I tell okay I'm not gonna talk we're
gonna watch through once and then we're gonna come back and talk about it okay
okay I missed all that
we're in a race against the Nazi
the Nazis have a bomb
they have a 12-month Head Start 18. how could you possibly know that
we've got one hope all America's industrial might at scientific innovation connected here
secret Laboratory keep everyone there until it's done
let's go recruit some scientists
yes build a town build it fast
we don't let scientists bring their families will never get the best yes Christopher Nolan
make scientists cool again please why would we go to the middle of nowhere for who knows how long
why why how about because this is the most important thing that
ever happened in the history of the world
you're the great improviser but this they all know who that was I'm going to come
back and talk about everything okay but like I can't help but
pause in some moments because it's just too awesome that was clearly your boy Einstein
ahead
so who's playing Richard fireman I still don't know is is it going to
be Robert Downey Jr could be a good casting we destroy the world chances are near zero
near zero what do you want for Theory alone zero would be nice
it's a matter of life and death you can perform this miracle
World War II would be over our boys would come home
that's happening isn't it
the world well remember this day that was fireman there
that guy looks like flyman well remember this day I'm not mentioning any of
the important stuff or I'm just talking about the fun [ __ ] going on in my head
I work here will ensure peace mankind has never seen
somebody builds a bigger one
you are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves and the world is not prepared
hey seven six five
four three Truman needs to know what's next what's next
this looks so good yes all right we're gonna break down everything but I just want to say first thing
it kind of irks me but I know it's necessary that you know we're focusing on one man here well you
know it's fine we're focusing on oppenheimer's story all right it's a great story it's a human
story he's an important figure but to say like to you know make it out as if this is the one
man who gave us this thing really annoys me because that's not how science is done anymore
at all right this was a the efforts of hundreds of scientists the most brilliant scientist in
the history of our species not one man all right and it all stood upon the shoulders of giants it
stood upon all the founding work like Einstein like all the physicists that come before them so
you know it irks me that that you know that's what people are going to take from this they're going
to be like oh Oppenheimer gave us the bomb no he did it all right he really didn't it was it was
physicists it was it was science okay so let's break this down because there's a lot and they
mentioned a lot of good stuff that I can already comment on a lot this is a national emergency
didn't need a charge so the reason why I got all giddy about the goggles is because of Richard
fireman's famous goggle story where uh you know they they were made to wear for the first test
right the Trinity test which is what's going on here where they exploded the gadget right they
come up with two uh like nuclear bombs at this time right so they were forced to wear these
really dark goggles they couldn't even see out of they couldn't see anything and so fireman in his
famous book surely you're joking Mr fireman read it it's epic it's just stories of his life and a
bunch of stories from this time and they're amazing and wonderful and just everything
um and he talks about this story where you know everyone was wearing these goggles and he would
he decided he's not going to wear them because he couldn't see anything you just see a flash
probably right and so you know because he's got such a big brain he's like all right you
know the only thing that's going to really damage my eyes here is the ultraviolet you know rays and
stuff and he figured look if I just sit behind glass the glass should absorb all that UV which
it does by the way you can't really get sunburn if you're sitting behind glass in the sun you can
it's just certain so you know but anyway um it's complicated so he didn't wear the goggles
and he was the first person to and the only person to see the bomb in its full
Glory which is a fun little story but the way he tells the story it's funny okay
so this is the gadget right so like I said they made two nuclear bombs right two atomic bombs
two uh implosive type bombs um and the gadget was one of them and the gadget was the first one it
was different to the two that they then used in Warfare little boy and uh fat man look at that
we're in a race against the Nazis
and I know what it means so like I was saying before this video started the Nazis
lead scientist was Heisenberg and a bunch of other of the greatest scientists we had ever
we've ever seen right Heisenberg on the level of Einstein in my opinion sort of thing right
so they were and Einstein you know wasn't directly helping at Los Alamos so you know
it was a scary time for if you knew your [ __ ] right if you were these physicists and you knew
that they had Eisenberg and a bunch of other people like him you know I'm sure these people
were worried big time right A lot of people don't know that context the Nazis have a bomb
I have a 12-month Head Start so they did have a head start right but the problem with this is
I'm not sure if they're going to address it in the movie is that the British actually had an
even better head start right and the Americans actually directly you know like co-opted and
got got the British to be involved and they got a bunch of the British Top physicists to come
get involved and so they they got all of that stuff so whilst the the Nazis did have a head
start on making the thing because the British weren't really making it they were just they
did a lot of research into how to make it they you know there was it was you know I think it
was almost kind of equal kind of but probably not like you've got to look at the Historical
vaccine context which I don't know all of it all right I just know more of the physics stuff but
obviously I'm very interested in the history as well here how could you possibly know that
we've got one hope all America's industrial minded scientific innovation connected and
saying like how could you possibly know that well um you know just the physics coming out
of that area right I feel like people would have thought well no they probably got more like 10 15
years when they're a lot of the the research lead research was coming out of the Germany and stuff
and that's here secret Laboratory keep everyone there until it's done
let's go recruit some scientists
it's uh Fineman my favorite maybe my favorite physicist he was um recruited just before he
finished his PhD I think yeah this differing sources here I think directly from his mouth he
claims that um he finished it or I can't remember or he didn't finish it and there's still a little
bit to do but I think it was sort of cut Sean and so this was his first thing after the PHD I was
still doing it um so he was just a kiddo back then but he played it you know he claims he didn't play
a big role but you know he did um so I'm going to tell you a lot about him because I like him asked
we don't want to scientists ring their families will never get the best so if
you want to hear about like all of these stories go read his book because he tells a
lot of stories about you know bringing his wife over who who passed away during this time sadly
why would we go to the middle of nowhere for who knows how long
why why how about because so this is the gadget right so it's the the whole idea behind this thing
is right you have a bunch of uranium right and you're going to bring a bunch of uranium
together until you get a critical mass and then it's going to explode it's really quite simple
and so you have to make this gadget in such a way that it's not together before you put it
you know move it away from you right so it's like you've gotta so the idea with the gadget was that
you able to compress it down when you want it to explode so it's not compressed and then you
push it all together and all the fusion uh what the [ __ ] am I saying all the the the uranium
mass comes together and then a critical mass is achieved and then it results in a big bang this
is the most important thing that ever happened in the history of the world I think I agree
it's a great improviser but this okay Einstein is looking good
looks like a really good choice I mean I'm very I love um the season one of Genius well what's
his name Jeffrey Rush played Einstein I think he did it brilliantly but this guy looks a bit more
you know accurate a bit more comic book accurate right you're the great improviser but this
you can't do in your head you know people always talk about Einstein's brain and how
like it was just normal sized right here's a little bit of food for thought um his head
you know you got to keep in mind people's brains shrink as they get older right and he died quite
old so his brain had shrunk quite a lot by that time right and they're taking the when
they compare it to the average brain size at the time they were comparing it to the average you
know of you know all all life from young to old right but as you get this age your brain gets
very small and I'm now keep this in context with the other fact of an anecdotal story
I'm not sure if it's a apocryphal but I think it's a true story this guy claimed
it was a true story where um he once you know was with Einstein in real life and he put his
hat on Einstein's hat on his head and he's he he claimed right this guy that he had a very
big head and that Einstein's hat um went cleanly over his ears yeah the great improviser but this
yeah someone stole it right weird isn't it can't do in your head all right let's focus
you can't do in your head what was it the language history of the world
you're the great improviser but this the Great improviser
you can't do in your head are we saying there's look at them they're bringing it all together
are we saying there's a chance that when we push that button we destroy the world chances are near
zero so that what he's talking about here is there was there was some concern that they would ignite
the atmosphere but it wasn't really a concern as oppenheimer's like portraying here that they had
done some calculations specifically Oppenheimer uh that suggested that it was pretty much no way
they weren't certain of course because like even now right look at this look at how much we know
about climate change and things like this the uncertainties are huge right so at this time
of course there was some concern we didn't know all that much we still don't know much
about turbulence right so back then it was like yeah this was a real concern
but you've got to have a little bit of faith in the mathematics right and uh so we thought we'd
be fine and then you know like they thought at this time that hydrogen bombs maybe might
be a concern but then they obviously came around as well not too much longer
not too much later near zero what do you want for Theory alone zero would be nice
we're probably gonna get copyrighted again in a second because of the sound
so the whole idea behind the bomb right was this it's a chain reaction a runaway chain
reaction of these neutrons uh cascading into other atoms resulting in the release of more
neutrons and this was just cascading and that's what results in this huge explosion uh you know
from converting this tiny little bit of Mass to energy I should have mentioned as well like
E equals m c squared Einstein right that's kind of really what made all of this possible
so you know if you want to thank someone thank Einstein for this stuff people were worried that
this cascading you know Cascade of neutrons uh would just continue and just until the whole
atmosphere is destroyed do you see so it's actually really a simple idea it's not like a
theory I said I guess it could have been actually they probably were there were papers of people
putting forward this hypothesis right but the the underlying sort of theory is just different areas
of physics you know you and then you do some scientific speculation and that's how science
is done and then you're probably wrong as most science is uh and they were wrong so luckily thank
God the world when I say they were wrong obviously Oppenheimer wasn't wrong some people were wrong