Two thirds of the way through Oppenheimer, I asked myself “Why did Christopher Nolan make this picture?” Because, except for a few cheesy nits, which I will most assuredly pick later, what we have gotten, about two hours in, is essentially a pseudo documentary, a laboriously accurate, $100 million reconstruction of the events leading up…
Tag: Albert Einstein
Universe proves Einstein right, again! Not!
“Universe proves Einstein right, again!” is a headline editors love to write. “We”—or at least “they”—love to think of old Doc Einstein, with his lamb-like innocence and basset-hound eyes, floating somewhere up in the etherium and looking down on us all and, somehow, looking out for us all. When it comes to relativity, or gravity,…