Like you, I did not expect to walk out of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and into the library with renewed inspiration to crunch my dissertation data. Does world-changing science really only convalesce around privileged, misunderstood geniuses, who require nothing less than carte blanche and universal deference to realize their prophetic visions? [2] Oppenheimer would have you think so (as would A Beautiful Mind, A Theory of Everything and countless other science biopics). Perhaps the individual, as the atomic unit of human experience, really is the best way to communicate science to the public. And here’s our email: [email protected].

Source: Daily Sun August 28, 2023 22:38 UTC