EDITION 0.1: Before the equations.
Schrödinger read the Upanishads. Heisenberg studied Indian philosophy. Oppenheimer quoted the Gita at Trinity. The founders of quantum mechanics turned East when Western philosophy ran out of language
The Moment at Trinity
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, the first nuclear device detonated in the New Mexico desert with an estimated yield of 21 kilotons. J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, observed from a control bunker approximately 10,000 yards away.
In The Decision to Drop the Bomb, a 1965 NBC documentary, h…
