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The most famous Trinity quote is Oppenheimer's "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds." I wrote on that awhile back, too — it doesn't mean what many people think it does. It's not Oppenheimer saying HE is the destroyer of worlds...http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/05/23/oppenheimer-gita/ …
...rather, its allusion to the Gita is more likely about the bomb revealing itself to him, compelling him to battle, as Krishna did to Arjuna. Which makes it about responsibility and duty, rather than a claim to power.pic.twitter.com/ekwaHs3IMf
Arthur Ryder, who taught Oppenheimer Sanskrit at Berkeley, authored his own very poetic (if unorthodox) translation of the Gita, which you can easily get online. Here's how Ryder translates the famous line: "Death am I, and my present task / Destruction." https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106016334002 …pic.twitter.com/sCWRsjvzGb
That seems a rather...complicated interpretation. What happened to Ockhams razor?
It is a heuristic that frequently fails when you are dealing with complicated things and complicated people. Even Oppenheimer's own account puts it in this context, however — it is not Oppenheimer bragging, it is a complex scriptural reference.pic.twitter.com/CEB36dJSCN
Still think you are making his words “deeper” without compelling evidence here. Also think it’s probably more tempting to do/justify that with “complicated” people. Never seen it as a brag anyway, just an expression of awe at terrible power and the responsibility for it.
You can read the blog post if you want to understand the argument, and the article that I cite in it looks very closely at Oppenheimer's interactions with Hindu philosophy over his life.
Ooor you can assume that the quote "reads itself" devoid of the context of the person who said it. Up to you!
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