- 21 Jan 2015 07:53
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I am listening to an interview with Annie Jacobsen about her book Operation Paperclip which is about the USA taking German scientists to America after ww2. She was asked if she was surprised America developed nuclear weapons before the Germans considering the fact that the Germans were more advanced than the Americans in terms of most of the weapons they were developing. She mentioned that Hitler sabotaged nuclear research because he said that theoretical physics was "a jewish science" and the nazis stopped funding research into theoretical physics at the universities.
Theoretical physics though is a science. It's not "jewish" or "german" or anything. Science is science. Einstein was jewish but he based many of his ideas on prior works by other European scientists. All sorts of scientists were involved with the development of theoretical physics.
Many people try to say Hitler was some sort of evil genius but I really think we have to question the idea he was a "genius". Dropping funding for theoretical physics based on an uninformed whim?
Theoretical physics though is a science. It's not "jewish" or "german" or anything. Science is science. Einstein was jewish but he based many of his ideas on prior works by other European scientists. All sorts of scientists were involved with the development of theoretical physics.
Many people try to say Hitler was some sort of evil genius but I really think we have to question the idea he was a "genius". Dropping funding for theoretical physics based on an uninformed whim?