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Rabbit Holes: Manhattan Project

  Original Date: Aug 5,2025 working on a presentation about the manhattan project. will keep adding stuff I find in the web. If you know more/better resources do add here! :) thank you this is just a list of links for now. Will write about it in detail later. From left to right: Kenneth Bainbridge, Joseph Hoffman, Robert Oppenheimer, Louis Hempelmann, Robert Bacher, Victor Weisskopf and Richard Dodson.   Nuclear Science for the Manhattan Project and Comparison toToday’s ENDF Data Arthur Compton’s 1941 Report on explosive fission of U-235: A look at the physics On the Origins of Lagrangian Hydrodynamic Methods Critical Assemblies: Dragon Burst Assembly and Solution Assemblies Criticality Experiments with Fast  235 U and  239 Pu Metal and Hydride Systems During the Manhattan Project The Trinity High-Explosive Implosion System: The Foundation for Precision Explosive Applications Neutronics Calculation Advances at Los Alamos: Manhattan Project to Monte Carlo https://bpb-...
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Rabbit Holes : Terence Tao

Just watched one of the greatest mathematicians, Terence Tao on Lex Fridman's channel! Lex always brings on amazing guests, and I love how the internet makes these conversations accessible. Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472 I took a lot of notes during the video and it gave me an idea: I want to start a series called "Rabbit Holes." In this series, I'll share my online journey as I try to understand these complex topics. I'll document all the websites and pages I visit, and since learning is an ongoing process, I'll keep updating my findings. I'm not a mathematician, so if you have any better resources for the topics I'll cover, please share them in the comments!(hope this helps out other people and also makes them interested in maths)  The topics I'll be exploring were generally discussed in the video in the order they appear.(if I missed something cool do tell me)         Speak...
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The Nuclear Odyssey

Can we reach the island of stability? I wanted to study this topic for a long time. Nuclear physics has always fascinated me. The subatomic realm is beautiful and the quest for new elements, going beyond the periodic table. Making elements that nature itself hasn't is such a incredible feat. We have gone past Uranium to Ogannesson. But these elements have been ephemeral and exist for times so small we can't fathom. Can we go beyond? Our present physics tells us that there could exist an "island" of elements beyond a unstable "sea" where there could exist stable nuclei. Will we ever be able to cross the choppy waters of the nuclear sea and land on the island of stability? This blog will be very informal[more like a diary] and I'll keep adding to it every day as I learn more. There'll be a bunch of rabbitholes but hopefully in the end my aim is to understand the current physics and the future of these mystical elements.  Jan 29, 2025  Day 1:  Islands a...
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