Richard Feynman Lecture -- "Los Alamos From Below"

Why HN readers recommended it

Strongly recommended for its funny, human account of Los Alamos, which one commenter calls almost a stand-up act.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Quagmire

Topic

manhattan project history

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• I highly recommend this talk by Richard Feynman on Los Alamos: [VIDEO] . His personal anecdote on some interesting details while he was working there.

• I spent a fair amount of time during the film playing 'Spot Jack Quaid' in anticipation of Feynman being called out at some point. He is spotted early during the montage when Oppenheimer goes recruiting, and then during various scenes in the background, twice playing …

• If the fissile core is anything like the original Trinity test one, it relies on a solid ball of plutonium metal being compacted to reach criticality (modern ones may be hollow). This means the explosion wavefront needs to arrive simultaneously all around the ball. This …