Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Greene Discuss Oppenheimer
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Top Comments (10)
It’s always a great episode when Brian Greene is on the show. The two are just phenomenal.
My favorite scene in Oppenheimer was when he was in graduate school in Europe appreciating a Picasso portrait. Cubism was a revolutionary way of viewing art just as his field (pun intended) of quantum mechanics was a revolutionary way of viewing physics. Also, cubism is representing reality as independent chunks, just as quantum mechanics does. Beautiful!
I'd genuinely enjoy watching more Neil deGrasse Tyson movie reviews, scientific or otherwise 😄
FYI: At 6:37, I imply that the German Physicist Werner Heisenberg was Jewish. That’s clearly false. He worked closely with the Nazis in their attempt to harness atomic energy for military purposes, as other parts of the conversation indicate. I thank the several attentive viewers who caught this for bringing it to my attention. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
On Brian Greene's point, the film is an art piece, not a documentary... It wasn't to literally demonstrate his mental processes. It was an artistic license to send a message and set the tone for the rest of the film... It was a film device, not a tangible, scientific, empirical representation of his brain/mental imagery... People went to the cinemas to see a Nolan film, not a direct 1:1 representation.
They focused on that probability of igniting the atmosphere and destroying the world, to bring it back at the end of the movie, when oppenheimer said "I think we did."
Holy crap please do more of these!! I love hearing Neil deGrasse Tyson analyzing more than just the science of a movie!!
I saw the movie on second day it was released and couldn’t get it out of my head for two weeks. I was so moved and awed by it …the direction ,the acting of Chillian Murphy ,the screenplay, the background music..everything.
I think we should remember it's not Chris Nolan's job to educate a generation. He just made a movie, and its a good one!
The film was about Oppenheimer. We get his perspective on it. I think it was important to address how removed the creators were, and how abrupt it was that this creation was now out of their hands.
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Top Comments (10)
It’s always a great episode when Brian Greene is on the show. The two are just phenomenal.
My favorite scene in Oppenheimer was when he was in graduate school in Europe appreciating a Picasso portrait. Cubism was a revolutionary way of viewing art just as his field (pun intended) of quantum mechanics was a revolutionary way of viewing physics. Also, cubism is representing reality as independent chunks, just as quantum mechanics does. Beautiful!
I'd genuinely enjoy watching more Neil deGrasse Tyson movie reviews, scientific or otherwise 😄
FYI: At 6:37, I imply that the German Physicist Werner Heisenberg was Jewish. That’s clearly false. He worked closely with the Nazis in their attempt to harness atomic energy for military purposes, as other parts of the conversation indicate. I thank the several attentive viewers who caught this for bringing it to my attention. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
On Brian Greene's point, the film is an art piece, not a documentary... It wasn't to literally demonstrate his mental processes. It was an artistic license to send a message and set the tone for the rest of the film... It was a film device, not a tangible, scientific, empirical representation of his brain/mental imagery... People went to the cinemas to see a Nolan film, not a direct 1:1 representation.
They focused on that probability of igniting the atmosphere and destroying the world, to bring it back at the end of the movie, when oppenheimer said "I think we did."
Holy crap please do more of these!! I love hearing Neil deGrasse Tyson analyzing more than just the science of a movie!!
I saw the movie on second day it was released and couldn’t get it out of my head for two weeks. I was so moved and awed by it …the direction ,the acting of Chillian Murphy ,the screenplay, the background music..everything.
I think we should remember it's not Chris Nolan's job to educate a generation. He just made a movie, and its a good one!
The film was about Oppenheimer. We get his perspective on it. I think it was important to address how removed the creators were, and how abrupt it was that this creation was now out of their hands.