Uggh... Barbie looks awful (and Oppenheimer is too long)
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Oppenheimer’s folly: On black holes, fundamental laws and pure and applied science
On September 1, 1939, the same day that Germany attacked Poland and started World War 2, a remarkable paper appeared in the pages of the journal Physical Review.
By Ashutosh Jogalekar on June 26, 2014
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/oppenhei
mer-8217-s-folly-on-black-holes-fundamental-laws-and-pure-and-applied-science/
On September 1, 1939, the same day that Germany attacked Poland and started World War 2, a remarkable paper appeared in the pages of the journal Physical Review. In it J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder laid out the essential characteristics of what we today call the black hole. Building on work done by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Fritz Zwicky and Lev Landau, Oppenheimer and Snyder described how an infalling observer on the surface of an object whose mass exceeded a critical mass would appear to be in a state of perpetual free fall to an outsider. The paper was the culmination of two years of work and followed two other articles in the same journal.
Then Oppenheimer forgot all about it and never said anything about black holes for the rest of his life.
He had not worked on black holes before 1938, and he would not do so ever again. Ironically, it is this brief contribution to physics that is now widely considered to be Oppenheimer’s greatest, enough to have possibly warranted him a Nobel Prize had he lived long enough to see experimental evidence for black holes show up with the advent of radio astronomy.
What happened? Oppenheimer’s lack of interest wasn’t just because he became the director of the Manhattan Project a few years later and got busy with building the atomic bomb. It also wasn't because he despised the free-thinking and eccentric Zwicky who had laid the foundations for the field through the discovery of black holes' parents - neutron stars. It wasn’t even because he achieved celebrity status after the war, became the most powerful scientist in the country and spent an inordinate amount of time consulting in Washington until his carefully orchestrated downfall in 1954. All these factors contributed, but the real reason was something else entirely – Oppenheimer just wasn’t interested in black holes. Even after his downfall, when he had plenty of time to devote to physics, he never talked or wrote about them. The creator of black holes basically did not think they mattered.
Oppenheimer’s rejection of one of the most fascinating implications of modern physics and one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe - and one he sired - is documented well by Freeman Dyson who tried to initiate conversations about the topic with him. Every time Dyson brought it up Oppenheimer would change the subject, almost as if he had disowned his own scientific children.
The reason, as attested to by Dyson and others who knew him, was that in his last few decades Oppenheimer was stricken by a disease which I call “fundamentalitis”. Fundamentalitis is a serious condition that causes its victims to believe that the only thing worth thinking about is the deep nature of reality as manifested through the fundamental laws of physics.
As Dyson put it:
“Oppenheimer in his later years believed that the only problem worthy of the attention of a serious theoretical physicist was the discovery of the fundamental equations of physics. Einstein certainly felt the same way. To discover the right equations was all that mattered. Once you had discovered the right equations, then the study of particular solutions of the equations would be a routine exercise for second-rate physicists or graduate students.”
Thus for Oppenheimer, black holes, which were particular solutions of general relativity, were mundane; the general theory itself was the real deal. In addition they were anomalies, ugly exceptions which were best ignored rather than studied. As Dyson mentions, unfortunately Oppenheimer was not the only one affected by this conditi
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Quantum Mechanics also gave us the computing chip
In our pop culture 'Atomics' can be part of 2 cultural messages, the happy kid message in a toon the 'Jetsons' opportunity and cartoonish fun of the Nuclear age and the other cultural side you have video game culture like Fallout which show a Fantasy horror scifi Terminator landscape.
In our world today Nuclear Weapons still proliferate as we see by Putin spreading missiles to Belarus, the opportunity for Power changes, pipelines bombed, political sanction in place because of Russian invasion of Ukraine, Green party wanted Germans to go back to bicycles and confusion as Germany goes back to coal.
With the power of the atom unleashed how has it gone backwards?
There is a guy who appears in social media, not a true expert but in math, physics, the sciences of the cosmos and quantum mechanics circles,
'Eric R Weinstein'
Who claims humanity or the West is stagnating, chasing its own tail with philosophy and claims man has not discovered anything real and applicable or a truly original practical science since the 60s and 1970s.
politically maybe he has a bone to pick
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1682256347029438464
During the past few crazy Left vs Right year, Conservative vs Liberalism years his brother also got censored
Eric Weinstein is not a big fan of the new 'String Theory' guys
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1681516386307194880
Nuke proliferation is a horror scene of spreading nuclear weapons, nuclear technology, fissionable material and nuclear weapons-making information to countries, Kingdoms or groups that do not already possess them.
Nuke power isn't always terrible a natural source of Nuke energy is our shining Sun, Regulated Nuclear power like 'Thorium' or Fusion might fix the world's energy needs.
Eric Ross Weinstein not an astronomer or nuclear physics guy but an American hedge fund director and podcast host.
He is very controversial in politics
on another controversial radio show 'Joe Rogan'
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Weird. The freaks are out.
90%
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/oppenheimer
96% on Rotten Tomatoes
movie Barbie is 80 maybe
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/barbie
Barbie not sure about its RT but currently holds a % positive rating
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:regmovies.com/static/en/us/promotions/barbie-pink-popcorn
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Well....
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I weep for humanity...
According to The Numbers, Barbie made $22,300,000 in previews on Thursday. The only movie to beat that in 2023 was Super Mario Bros with over $31 Million.
Nobody else was even close, with Guardians 3 and Ant Man 3 making $17.5 Million and Miles Morales 2 making $17.35 Million.
Gross.
Well... let's try to look at the bright side. At least people are telling Disney and WB that they're tired of superhero flicks anyhow.
Oppenheimer, meanwhile, made a much more modest $10,500,000 which is about what I expected either of these films to make in previews.
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You mean the $ from Wed showtimes plus Thurs showtimes.
I can believe the $ from Wed were about $7M, and then Thurs would be about $14M.
That would explain the $7M missing from average Wed total Box Office.
There's no evidence of this.
If that were the case, Barbie would have been a Thursday release instead of a Friday release.
And if they were taking money for Barbie since Wednesday night, that means that SoF was not number 1 in the Box Office for Thursday.
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https://www.regmovies.com/static/en/us/promotions/barbie-pink-popcorn
Okay. Lucky for SoF they didn't consider that a Thursday release then so it could get one last day in 1st place.
Regardless, this woke turd made over $70 Million by Friday night. That's more than any other movie in 2023, including Super Mario Bros.
It appears that Hollywood did learn a lesson this year. But it wasn't the right one.
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Barbie has a Transexual Shemale Transgender barbie 'Hari Nef'
Anti-LGBTQ Preacher Calls for Holy Judgment Against “Barbie”
https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/07/anti-lgbtq-preacher-calls-for-holy
-judgment-against-barbie-movie/
'Oppenheimer' movie review: Nolan’s bleak biopic is measured and masterful
https://www.indulgexpress.com/entertainment/cinema/2023/jul/22/oppenhe
imer-movie-review-nolansbleak-biopicis-measured-and-masterful-51271.html
weekly
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekly/
international charts
https://www.the-numbers.com/international-charts-overview
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Oppenheimer Ending
Now, however, comes the key moment, and the one that strikes the dark note that the film closes on. As Einstein turns to leave, Oppenheimer reminds him of an earlier conversation they had before the testing of the first atom bomb, when the Manhattan Project physicists were worried that the chain reaction caused by the atomic bomb might never end — that it could proceed to ignite the Earth’s atmosphere and destroy the planet.
“When I came to you with those calculations,” Oppenheimer tells Einstein, “we thought we might start a chain reaction that might destroy the entire world.”
“What of it?” Einstein asks.
“I believe we did,” Oppenheimer says.
As the camera closes in on his face, we cut to an array of modern-day nuclear missiles. (Look fast, and you might notice a sliver of Oppenheimer’s telltale silhouette in the corner of the frame.) Drifting among the clouds, we see vapor trails of nukes being fired through the air. We then see Oppenheimer, stuck inside a plane, watching the night sky lit up with rockets passing above — an image tied to a memory earlier in the film from David Dastmalchian’s William Borden, who recalled being in a plane watching German V-2 rockets headed toward England. We see explosions across the surface of the planet, their blast radiuses unspeakably vast. Then, a ring of fire begins to consume the Earth. The very last image of the film is Oppenheimer’s face in extreme close-up, staring at the droplets in the pond, and closing his eyes. Perceptive viewers might realize that these final frames echo the movie’s opening images, which were of the young Oppenheimer in close-up, looking at droplets of rain in a small pool of water.
It’s an astonishingly powerful ending, in part because it gives grim cinematic life to the generational fear that nukes are effectively Chekhov’s gun: a weapon introduced in an earlier act of our lives that will inevitably be used before our story ends. Nolan, like many of us, grew up under the specter of thermonuclear annihilation. It’s an old, defining fear that has been dormant in recent years, but it’s never really gone away, has it? Recent events in Russia and Ukraine have served as grisly reminders that we all remain just a hair trigger away from incinerating ourselves in a nuclear holocaust.
So, that’s the ultra-nihilistic reading. I did ask Nolan whether he’d anticipated this kind of reaction to the finale. “It’s the response I’d hoped for in terms of the strength of the reaction,” he said. “That specificity certainly wasn’t my intention.” Nolan doesn’t want to send messages with his work, and he’s adamant about never being didactic. But he did want, he says “a strong set of troubling reverberations at the end. And I felt strongly that if I did my job right, those would land differently with each individual watching the film and different audiences.”
“The whole film is about consequences. The delayed onset of consequences that people often forget.” — Christopher Nolan
https://www.vulture.com/article/oppenheimer-ending-explained-christoph
er-nolan.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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WARNING: It looks as though Second put the ending spoilers to Oppenheimer in his post this morning because he's a douchebag.
It's been out like two days dude.
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Barbie scores 07/23
Rotten Tomatoes:
All Critics: 90%
Top Critics 91%
Verified Audience: 90%
All Audience: 74%
IMDB:
7.6/10
Metacritic:
Critics: 80/100
Users: 5.6/100
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Lyrics to a "family friendly kids movie" in 2023...
Barbie World - Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice
I'm always yours (stop playin' with 'em, RIOT)
Ooh whoa
And I'm bad like the Barbie (Barbie)
I'm a doll, but I still wanna party (party)
Pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend (bend)
I'm a ten, so I pull in a Ken
Like Jazzie, Stacie, Nicki (grrah)
All of the Barbies is pretty (damn)
All of the Barbies is bad
It girls (It girls) and we ain't playin' tag (grrah)
Rad (rad), but he spank me when I get bad
I'm in LA, Rodeo Drive (Drive)
I'm in New York, Madison Ave
I'm a Barbie girl (girl), Pink Barbie Dreamhouse
The way Ken be killin' shit, got me yellin' out like the Scream house (woo)
Yellin' out, we ain't sellin' out
We got money, but we ain't lendin' out
We got bars, but we ain't bailin' out
In that pink Ferrari, we peelin' out
I told Tae bring the Bob Dylan out
That pussy so cold, we just chillin' out
They be yellin', yellin', ye-yellin' out
It's Barbie, bitch, if you still in doubt (ooh)
And I'm bad like the Barbie (Barbie)
I'm a doll, but I still wanna party (party)
Pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend (bend)
I'm a ten, so I pull in a Ken
Like Jazzie, Stacie, Nicki (grrah)
All of the Barbies is pretty (damn)
All of the Barbies is bad
It girls (It girls) and we ain't playin' tag (grrah)
Barbie ain't nothin' to play 'bout
He wanna play in the playhouse (playhouse)
The fuck they gon' say now? (Grrah)
I'm washin' these bitches, I'm rubbin' the stain out
Like I'm ready to bend (grrah)
All the fake Barbies just wanna pretend (like)
Like hold on, let me go find me a pen (grrah)
Look where it led, now I'ma put it to bed
She a Barbie bitch with her Barbie clique (grrah)
I keep draggin' her, so she bald a bit (damn)
And I see the bread, I want all of it (damn)
And I want the green, so I olive it (grrah)
And I throw it back, so he losin' it (like)
And I give the box with no shoes in it (damn)
Yeah, I know the trick, so I got him bricked (damn)
Yeah, they know who lit, me and Barbie, bitch
And I'm bad like the Barbie (Barbie)
I'm a doll, but I still wanna party (party)
Pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend (bend)
I'm a ten, so I pull in a Ken
Like Jazzie, Stacie, Nicki (grrah)
All of the Barbies is pretty (damn)
All of the Barbies is bad
It girls (It girls) and we ain't playin' tag (grrah)
I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination
Sounds about right.
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Quote:“The whole film is about consequences. The delayed onset of consequences that people often forget.” — Christopher Nolan
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
WARNING: It looks as though Second put the ending spoilers to Oppenheimer in his post this morning because he's a douchebag.
It's been out like two days dude.
About consequences. 6ix, you smoke. So did Oppenheimer. Smoking killed him early in life. With all his intelligence, he didn't anticipate that death, but he should have. He didn't anticipate the $10 trillion the USA would spend on nuclear weapons but he should have since there were plenty of previous examples of weapon manufacturing expanding as fast as humans could build them.
Several comments about spoilers, as in IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SPOIL OPPENHEIMER UNLESS YOU ARE AN IDIOT WHO KNOWS NOTHING, which pretty accurately describes 6ixStringJack and his Trumptard relatives, colleagues, acquaintances, and Indiana ignoramuses:
1) Oppenheimer is not a murder mystery like Knives Out (2019) where the viewer figures out who the real killer is as the major part of the entertainment value of the movie.
2) Oppenheimer, the man himself, was not sure that the Trinity bomb would actually explode as designed, but there is no uncertainty for the viewers unless they wandered into the wrong auditorium while looking for Barbie.
3) Oppenheimer was even less sure that the Trinity bomb wouldn't set the atmosphere on fire, but there is no uncertainty now.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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