#the physicists

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Method and Madness

Catch-22 // M*A*S*H // Hamlet // The Physicists

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Book #191 - Die Physiker by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

(I'm going to refrain from ranting about how catastrophically my former teacher misunderstood this play; because this is the only school reading I ever did voluntarily, and I still like it.)

If dry, dialogue-based comedy is your thing, give this play a shot? It's a very interesting time capsule, theme- and setting-wise, of the Atomic Age circa 1960. You just have to be okay with a bit of bleak absurdism. Also, maybe read his essay "Modell Scott" as a companion piece, I found it insightful.

Aging is a very interesting thing, for art. The Physicists speaks of science corrupted, not by its methods, not by its own, noble aims taken down sinister paths, but by what conventional power might, can, and will do with it. It is patently obvious how scared the play is of the atom bomb, drawing from it the lesson that scientific advancement may have reached, if not already overshot, the limit of what humanity can handle, and that science will need to be reigned in and restricted in the future, in order to prevent bigger disaster.

Which, you know, is an understandable conclusion to reach from two levelled cities. And I guess I just never thought about how that conclusion has aged... not in terms of good or bad, mind you, but in terms of... how has the popular image of a good scientist changed since then, and why?

Today's art and pop culture often depicts science as (part of) the solution to countless global crises, something that isn't listened to enough, something that should be heeded by the powers that mostly ignore it, and provided with resources and the independence to do the right and noble thing (which is science). And that has grounding in reality, too - in anti-vaxxers and mask protests, in climate change denial and terfism, aka people who ignore science and make up their own reality.

Hell, 1961 was pre moon landing... Maybe The Physicists' idea has always been temporary. Or maybe we have gotten used to nuclear power and now can no longer imagine what other horrible, weaponizable thing science could discover.

I currently don't have the brain capacity to make an entire essay out of this, but suffice it to say that this is... fun to contemplate.

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[otaku553]

Girl why are you so layers

Another outfit breakdown this time for Hollyberry! Referenced some 18th century French ballgowns though the shift and other parts are kind of inaccurate

[un-ionizetheradlab]

It makes me so uncomfortable to see people post blatantly anti-Jewish content and then turn right around and stan Jewish historical figures. Like, do they hate us or love us?

[gleafer]

Dopplebanger comic PART TWO!

[bikefuckersoftheworldunite]

I’m also forever thinking about danny boyle saying this about cillian murphy btw

cillian murphy and danny boyle on the set of sunshine (2007)

[kathaynesart]

Can I ask what the formulas are that donnie calculates to make a big boom(??)

Just curious, lolol

Of course! There’s a few different ones in there including the infamous e=mc2, but the majority are meant to calculate the energy released in a nuclear explosion. There’s also the Born–Oppenheimer (BO) approximation (which makes the assumption that the wave functions of atomic nuclei and electrons in a molecule can be treated separately) for the sake of his creative process. Admittedly t’s not 100% accurate (because nuclei and electrons CAN move at the same speed) but Donnie is working on the fly here with nothing but his still limited mortal brain and it has been accurate enough to aid his basic needs in blowing up Krang. So uh… just trust him on it haha!

[movietonight]

M*A*S*H // The Physicists - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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5'6 Barney come back to me...

[greenfiend]

Wheeler’s Delayed Choice

[evil-scientist]

Fuck it I’m gonna start something here

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