Will you have gone and worked on the Manhattan Project if you were around at the time?

And you know, it's a tough question, but I suspect I would have gotten caught up in the same kind of fervor because when you see what was happening at Los Alamos and the movie

does a really good job of this you realize that these scientists are getting they're

caught up in this ocean of excitement to do

something that no one has ever done before. New science. Yeah yeah yeah.

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Hey everybody, Neil degrass Tyson here.

I've got with me Brian Green, Theoretical Physicist, Columbia University,

and the two of us we're just going to riff on

Oppenheimer the man and especially Oppenheimer the movie so Brian I trust you've seen the film? I have. So I've met

Christopher Nolan previously. We've had him as a guest on Star Talk after one of his sort of time-warping sort of movies that he had

produced and a very smart guy very clever with a lot of attention to detail and my sense of the film was that it

captured so much of what he cares about. He cares about science he cares about, he cares about science, he cares about culture, he cares about entertainment,

he cares about all of this, and every little physics tidbitty fact that I knew from that era he

managed to capture not with an entire off-ramp just to just to put in a fact that you know should be there.

He managed to fully stitch it and weave it so that I felt like I was sitting on Oppenheimer's shoulder watching all of this unfold before me.

Yeah, no, I definitely had a similar feeling about it.

I mean, there were certainly moments when there were things on screen that I suspect most people wouldn't take much note of,

such as the Einstein and Girdle who would famously go for walks together.

I mean, there were the wonderful moments when I was just

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