The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project
By Scott Alexander
May 26, 2017 at 05:45AM
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«For centuries, Europe was sitting on this vast untapped resource of potential supergeniuses. Around 1880, in a few countries only, economic and political conditions finally became ripe for the potential to be realized. The result was one of the greatest spurts of progress in scientific history, bringing us relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclear bombs, dazzling new mathematical systems, the foundations of digital computing, and various other abstruse ideas I don't even pretend to understand. This lasted for approximately one generation, after which an psychopath with a stupid mustache killed everyone involved.»