1 Current read: Discognition by #SteveShaviro (so far, it’s excellent)
2 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by #RichardRhodes
3 TBD; probably Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by #JeffreyJKripal
4 Bruno’s Dream by #IrisMurdoch
#books #BookSky
I’m reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb by #RichardRhodes. But it’s massive, and I’m planning to take a break with some #shortstories from The Shadow at the Bottom of the World by #ThomasLigotti.
#ShadowTicket
#ThomasPynchon
“…while the Hitlerboys would be cranked up to unnatural levels of speed…by the latest pills…some still under research at IG Farben.”
IG Farben,chemical manufacturer who aided Nazi war efforts.
#Gravity'sRainbow
#TheMakingoftheAtomicBomb
#RichardRhodes
#ThePassenger
#CormacMcCarthy
#McCarthy25
Groves hired him because he had seen that he could not be intimidated. That was all. A lot of very smart people thought he was possibly the smartest man God ever made. Odd chap, that God.
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#RichardRhodes
The Manhattan Project, from scientific discovery to detonation open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
#ManhattanProject #Szilard #neutron #chain #reaction #Curie #atom #Einstein #Bohr #Fermi #Oppenheimer #Heisenberg #Nazi #RichardRhodes #a-bomb #fission #nuclear
#RichardRhodes - Jak powstała bomba atomowa
Stworzenie bomby atomowej na zawsze zmieniło bieg historii. Coś, co zaczęło się jako zaledwie interesujący problem teoretyczny w fizyce, z przerażającą szybkością zmieniło się w broń masowej zagłady.
Trzeba się zmierzyć z tą pozycją.
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#RichardRhodes
About the conference at Harnack House on June 4 1942,Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of Armaments and War Production,wrote, “…Heisenberg had not given any final answer to my question whether a successful nuclear fission could be kept under control….
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#RichardRhodes
The 1941 Copenhagen meeting between Heisenberg and Bohr was described after the war by Heisenberg and even later recounted by Elizabeth, Heisenberg’s wife, and Aage, Bohr ‘s son, with the details of the conversation varying significantly.
“As Bohr explained…no one could take seriously anymore the image of electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets...”
#TheRigorofAngels #WilliamEgginton
“…Hantaro Nagaoka, had postulated in 1903 a "Saturnian" model of the atom with flat rings of electrons…”
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