Production VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson gets quite ‘particular’ discussing the visual effects in Christopher Nolan’s hit biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, his life and work leading The Manhattan Project’s development of the world’s first nuclear bomb.
The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.
Forget about summer school as a time to make up a flunked course, or get a requirement out of the way. For a group of students at Fermilab, summer school means learning about the one of most cutting-edge technologies on the planet: quantum information science. On the grounds of the huge underground particle accelerator in Batavia, students Monday began learning about the obstacles and .
pushing on the top and pushing on the bottom and pushing on both sides of it every angle of this is gonna be being pushed upon with a lot of explosive force. what you want to do is get this pressure to squeeze the plutonium target evenly. if it were asymmetrical, it probably wouldn t work. you had to have enough pressure quickly enough to smash these subatomic particles together hard enough to get them to have this a-amazing reaction. wellerstein: this is really hard to do. every aspect of this is an almost totally new problem. it is a technology that would have benefited from another decade of development. and they didn t have that. they had a year. conant: oppenheimer was working night and day building the bomb. and as the project grew in size, the security service protecting the project also grew. and even though he was beloved and admired