wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > "The origin of the name Trinity for [the first nuclear
explosion
> in
> > > history, in 1945] is uncertain. It is commonly thought that
> Robert
> > > Oppenheimer provided the name, which would seem logical, but
even
> > > this is not definitely known. A leading theory is that
Oppenhimer
> > did
> > > select it, and that he did so with reference to the divine
Hindu
> > > trinity of Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Preserver), and
> Shiva
> > > (the Destroyer). Oppenheimer had an avid interest in Sanskrit
> > > literature (which he had taught himself to read), and
following
> > the
> > > Trinity test is reported to have recited [this] passage from
the
> > > Bhagavad-Gita...
> > >
> > > "If the radiance of a thousand suns
> > > Were to burst at once into the sky,
> > > That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...
> > > I am become Death,
> > > The shatterer of Worlds."
> > >
> > imo, Oppenheimer was a f*cking moron playing God.
>
> Oh, now, that's an intelligent comment, Jim.
>
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Oppenheimer was a troubled individual who at one time started
choking another university student without provocation. He was in
therapy for years:
http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2005_10_006820.php
"He was a neurotic student whose turnover of psychiatrists was rapid
(his French psychiatrist prescribed "women" as a treatment), and
soon Oppenheimer was studying psychoanalysis himself, which might
have been the best thing for him."
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