Behind the Scenes of ‘Oppenheimer’
Science Vs
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4.4 • 12.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Wendy Zuckerberg, a dillistic decides versus a today we're pitting facts against film. |
| 0:14.4 | While we're working on episodes for our next season, which I'm very excited about, we're |
| 0:19.3 | just fervig up what we're going to be tackling. |
| 0:22.6 | In the meantime, we are putting little Easter eggs down our feet and the egg I'm serving |
| 0:28.1 | up today is poached by that I mean, it's the best kind of egg. |
| 0:35.2 | Don't tell me scrambles is better than poached. |
| 0:39.3 | So Christopher Nolan's latest film Oppenheimer just hit the cinemas and it's been going off. |
| 0:45.8 | This film tells the story of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer who is sometimes credited as the father of |
| 0:50.9 | the atomic bomb. |
| 0:52.7 | It's the more you're from the trailer. |
| 0:54.3 | You're the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves and the world is not prepared. |
| 1:05.6 | Now in truth, the atomic bomb actually had quite a few fathers and mothers, but why let |
| 1:12.5 | facts get in the way of a good story, eh? |
| 1:14.7 | Well, to tell us all about facts, this week I had a chat with Professor David Salzberg. |
| 1:21.7 | He was a scientific consultant on Oppenheimer. |
| 1:24.5 | He's also a consultant on TV shows like The Big Bang Theory and before you throw a tomato |
| 1:29.8 | at him, his job wasn't to write the jokes just to help out with the science. |
| 1:36.3 | We talked to David about the science of building an atomic bomb working on a set with actors |
| 1:41.6 | and helping them grapple with some pretty tough scientific concepts. |
| 1:46.1 | And we also discussed why it's so damn important that the stuff written on blackboards |
| 1:51.4 | in science-y-sounding movies is actually correct. |
| 1:55.5 | It's a bit of a gripe of mine. |
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