How wonderful it is to be able to listen to you one more time David! So much talent lost, it is impossible to accept or to comprehend. You are missed so deeply by everyone who met you! Brilliant mind and golden heart. ✨️ 💛💛💛
What a wonderful, wonderful interview of my friend David Rumschitzki!! Very sadly he passed away the following day not clear exactly of what - some type of sudden attack - as he led a very healthy lifestyle. May his memory be for blessing
The problem with academics is their constant need; like children for self indulgence. You cannot re write history. But it is told by the conquers. As per scientific America great article - After the war got over Teller kept on pushing for the hydrogen bomb. History was on his side and the increasing encroachment of the Soviets into Eastern Europe followed by major events like the Berlin airlift and the testing of the first Soviet atomic bomb firmed up his conviction and allowed him to drum up support from scientists, politicians and the military. Sadly his initial design for the Super was fatally flawed; while an atomic bomb would in fact ignite a large mass of tritium or deuterium, energy losses would be too rapid to sustain a successful fusion reaction. Even after knowing this Teller kept pushing for the design, taking advantage of the worsening political situation and his own growing prominence in the scientific community. This was Teller's first real dishonest act. newsletter promo Sign up for Scientific American’s free newsletters. Sign Up His second dishonest act was withholding credit from the man who actually came up with the first successful idea for a hydrogen bomb - Stanislaw Ulam. An exceptionally brilliant and versatile mathematician, Ulam first performed detailed calculations that revealed holes in Teller's original Super design and then thought of the key process of radiation implosion that would compress a batch of thermonuclear fuel and enable its sustained fusion. Teller who had been smoldering with rage at Ulam's calculations until then immediately saw the merit of the idea and significantly refined it. Since then almost every hydrogen bomb in the world's nuclear arsenals has been constructed on the basis of the Teller-Ulam model. Yet Teller seems to have denied Ulam the credit for the idea even in his later years, something that is especially puzzling considering that he downplayed his own role in the development of hydrogen bombs in the waning years of his life. After the war got over Teller kept on pushing for the hydrogen bomb. History was on his side and the increasing encroachment of the Soviets into Eastern Europe followed by major events like the Berlin airlift and the testing of the first Soviet atomic bomb firmed up his conviction and allowed him to drum up support from scientists, politicians and the military. Sadly his initial design for the Super was fatally flawed; while an atomic bomb would in fact ignite a large mass of tritium or deuterium, energy losses would be too rapid to sustain a successful fusion reaction. Even after knowing this Teller kept pushing for the design, taking advantage of the worsening political situation and his own growing prominence in the scientific community. This was Teller's first real dishonest act. newsletter promo Sign up for Scientific American’s free newsletters. Sign Up His second dishonest act was withholding credit from the man who actually came up with the first successful idea for a hydrogen bomb - Stanislaw Ulam. An exceptionally brilliant and versatile mathematician, Ulam first performed detailed calculations that revealed holes in Teller's original Super design and then thought of the key process of radiation implosion that would compress a batch of thermonuclear fuel and enable its sustained fusion. Teller who had been smoldering with rage at Ulam's calculations until then immediately saw the merit of the idea and significantly refined it. Since then almost every hydrogen bomb in the world's nuclear arsenals has been constructed on the basis of the Teller-Ulam model. Yet Teller seems to have denied Ulam the credit for the idea even in his later years, something that is especially puzzling considering that he downplayed his own role in the development of hydrogen bombs in the waning years of his life.
Nice chat and a great man. Thank you for sharing. I wonder if he knew about doped aerogel to suppress the radiation and let the neutron density go up and not get destroyed by all that radiation before they hit the core. That and lithium neutron release like castle bravo had. Glad to see a video of him. Thank you again for sharing.
A wonderful lecture by a brilliant man. He speaks in terms we all can understand. The complexities of their achievements would boggle our minds even today.
A historical event, the man who was there, a first hand account of physics history. Wrong audience, though, one can sense plenty of ignorance in the background.
Who was the idiot who set up the stage to have a bunch of disrespectful students sitting behind him. So distracting and such a bad reflection on the University!
Does he mention the time he recommended using nukes to excavate a harbor in Alaska? Or losing all respect of academia by testifying against Oppenhrimer?
@@lippi2171 You are very much wrong with your statement. Whatever was said in the movie is EXACTLY what Edward actually told: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mXM39qhtwdI.html
One has to see this many many times. Great memory of the great men and time told by a great man. It is a book in itself worth to keep it on the shelf. The teenage listeners behind Teller appreciate this day with him when they will be in their fortieth. That is the nature of us. All round maturity and nostalgia are two sides of the same coin.
Excellent film about the history of oil refining cat cracking. Thanks for sharing! Over the years, we lost at least four cat cracking units (and their respective refineries) in the state of Illinois. Wood River (Standard Oil), Blue Island (Clark Refining), Lockport (Texaco) and Lawrenceville (Texaco-Indian Refining).
