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11 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

This will sound stupid… it never occurred to that it was the Strong Nuclear force being unleashed with Trinity…

That phrase struck me as well.

It sounds good in a film, and I can believe that Oppenheimer used it to impress people, and I suppose it is one way of visualising what happens in fission. But you could equally well say that it was unleashing E equals em cee squared  - the point being that the speed of light squared is a very large number.

(The mass of the particles of a broken uranium nucleus sums to less than the mass of the uranium nucleus itself. The difference is converted into energy using that formula.)

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55 minutes ago, Deadlines? What Deadlines? said:

Forces, schmorces. 

How about that dialogue, huh?!? So audible. So intelligible. So appropriate for @Corvinus85’s fragile ears.

As long as there is no too much background sound over the dialogue. Sound mixing has been Nolan's problem in his movies, especially Tenet.

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On 7/13/2023 at 12:17 PM, TheLastWolf said:

 

Whole movie's going to be on youtube this way

Why is this called opening look? It's a long trailer.

On 7/13/2023 at 4:46 PM, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

This will sound stupid… it never occurred to that it was the Strong Nuclear force being unleashed with Trinity

what?

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The mass defect and binding energy of fission and fusion is an interesting but a bit of a confusing subject. Why are the constituent parts of a fused helium atom larger than the helium atom, but on the other hand, the constituent parts of a uranium smaller than the uranium atom before the fission event? Both yield energy due to a mass defect. I think this video does a great job explaining these concepts. I also added another video on the strong nuclear force by the same person. He provides excellent explanations.

 

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