Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppenheimer?

Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by 3cats-in-a-coat on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:07AM (#36812391)

It's not American attitude, it's just people being people.

As a reminder, even Einstein was dismissed as an incompetent quack by his colleagues in Germany when he unveiled relativity, so lack of respect for one another has always been a thing for our species.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by moonchrome on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:13AM (#36812435)

To be fair most of "revolutionary" ideas are quackery so it's a good heuristic.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by jstanley on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:22AM (#36812969)

It's a good heuristic if you just want to be right more often, but if you want to find new good ideas then it'll rule out every single one of them.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by moonchrome on Friday July 21, 2023 @06:45PM (#36820978)

This implies new ideas have to be revolutionary ? It's usually possible to progress in the existing direction. Science advances one funeral at a time and all that jazz.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by 3cats-in-a-coat on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:48AM (#36814453)

With such a heuristic, if you seek food, and most of your environment is not food, so you dismiss your entire environment as not food, and refuse to seek, you die :)

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by strunz on Saturday July 22, 2023 @08:18PM (#36831314)

Ironically they portray Einstein as sort of out of touch with contemporary quantum physics in the movie and explain that as the reason he wasn't part of the Manhattan a project.

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