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

Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by roenxi on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:55AM (#36812780)

Doesn't that reinforce the point though? Europe had all these brilliant, well educated people and didn't manage to rise above shooting each other until the civilisation on the continent was more or less reduced to rubble.

That isn't a result that makes Europe look clever. The major intellectual innovation out of that era was communism. The US approach outperformed Europe's by such a margin that it isn't worth comparing them.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by zpeti on Friday July 21, 2023 @12:42PM (#36816082)

Wow, can’t believe you’re getting downvoted. This is exactly the point of my original post.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by brmgb on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:14PM (#36821282)

Because you think the US managed to get above shooting each other? Ah, my sweet summer child. Enjoy your mostly empty continent surrounded by oceans and the quirk of history who briefly put you were you are. It’s unlikely to last long.

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by eesmith on Saturday July 22, 2023 @02:41PM (#36828626)

You don't think capitalism was a major intellectual innovation?

That came out of Europe, and well after the steam engine.

And, I think you mean "Marxism", not "communism"?

Communism in the West predates capitalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communism lists examples like Tommaso Campanella's 1601 work "The City of the Sun" and Morelly's 1755 work "The Code of Nature" as some of the works which predate Smith's 1776 work "The Wealth of Nations".

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