(12-12-2017, 04:56 PM)Mike Brubacher Wrote: Come visit Jan. It's an interesting drive and would be happy to act as your personal tour guide.
Mike, thank you very much for your generous offer. I will report to you as soon as I arrive.
The Trinity site is in my mind associated with two names Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and Richard Feynman, author of textbooks we used during my studies.
Oppenheimer had a ranch in New Mexico and loved horse riding here. As all famous physicists he was also a philosopher. He liked Hindu religion and read Bhagavad Gita in the original Sanskrit. Famous is his remark after the Trinity test: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Feynman as a junior physicist was not central to the Manhattan project. He administered the computation group of "human computers". He received the Nobel Prize in Physics and became one of the best-known physicists in the world.
Jan