Albert Einstein: How I See the World (Part 5 of 6)

An excellent PBS documentary on Swiss genius Albert Einstein, most commonly known for his theory of relativity. Part 5 of 6

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[ladykylie]

FOOK .... I am crying now for Einstein had to take the blame for the bomb. I just went to an exhibition of him today

[leomaralibangbang]

Fuck Roosevelt!



[LVCrocky]

HOW I SEE THE WORLD A GODLESS UNIVERSE no loving supernatural being in the sky that cares and intervenes in human affairs and events cold hard universe and a cold hard world survival of the fittess

[Stealthzor66]

Kind of like how USA acting atm..

[Nathalie Natacha]

La conscience d'un homme . Merci .

[TheTechController]

very unusual women speaking at 6.00

[thebloodofhisdeath]

How we forget that Japan was ruled by a emperor who thought he was god and forced a nation to worship him as such. Hitler and the nazi's did the same, stalin did as well with the Russians. We must never allow the state to play god nor should we play along. Least God see from heaven and grow in a righteous wrath.

[Susan Carroll]

Eloquently conveyed. :-) 

[vidarmoose]

Greater than any evil made by man is the brilliance of what his mind can achieve. Killing machines are by far not our specialty, but we may still be inclined by territorial instincts to pursue the selfish gains made possible by such tools. Ironically, tools that couldn't have come into existence unless it was for peaceful scientific genius.

If Roosevelt hadn't died before he got Einsteins second letter, I bet he would've taken the advice of the scientists. Nazism, however, was no easy opponent.

[Ecneuqes]

Quite a few animals kill for social reasons too.

[EliasJordan3]

Oppenheimer and his crew were developping the bomb because the Nazis were also trying to develop it. Even in retrospect you can't say it was a bad thing they made the bomb, because they couldn't predict the future. Imagine if only Nazi-Germany had built the bomb, that would've been 10x more irresponsible than what they did.

And Oppenheimer was against dropping it on Japan, and he was in favor of stopping the arms race which began soon after altogether. It is unreasonable to blame them for it.