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** In the color sequences, [[spoiler:Oppenheimer's story in developing the atom bomb is gradually fractured into explorations of his scientific ambitions, his moral ethics and personal motivations, the politicization of his work, and the guilt and trauma he experienced after its usage. Scenes in color also incorporate aspects of psychological horror that Oppenheimer imagines (or experiences) that are separate from the actual story.]]
** In the monochrome sequences, [[spoiler: Strauss's decision to humiliate Oppenheimer and neutralize his political influence in the US grew from his own motivations and perceived slights, and he calls back to different aspects of Oppenheimer's life to weave a narrative of disloyalty. Strauss's own failure at his cabinet nomination was also defeated by the allying of different scientists and Senators who opposed his treatment of Oppenheimer.]]
** Finally, the film broaches the question of a simultaneous process of fission and fusion as the next step in nuclear weapons, as proposed by Edward Teller in creating a thermonuclear weapon (or a hydrogen bomb). [[spoiler: If we are to assume that Oppenheimer and Strauss's stories serve as a metaphor for these processes, we see the consequences of what happens when they do intersect: MutuallyAssuredDestruction.]]
** In the monochrome sequences, [[spoiler: Strauss's decision to humiliate Oppenheimer and neutralize his political influence in the US grew from his own motivations and perceived slights, and he calls back to different aspects of Oppenheimer's life to weave a narrative of disloyalty. Strauss's own failure at his cabinet nomination was also defeated by the allying of different scientists and Senators who opposed his treatment of Oppenheimer.]]
** Finally, the film broaches the question of a simultaneous process of fission and fusion as the next step in nuclear weapons, as proposed by Edward Teller in creating a thermonuclear weapon (or a hydrogen bomb). [[spoiler: If we are to assume that Oppenheimer and Strauss's stories serve as a metaphor for these processes, we see the consequences of what happens when they do intersect: MutuallyAssuredDestruction.]]
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** In the monochrome sequences, [[spoiler: Strauss's decision to humiliate Oppenheimer and neutralize his political influence grew from his own personal motivations, and he calls back to different aspects of Oppenheimer's life to weave a narrative of disloyalty. Strauss's own failure at his cabinet nomination was also defeated by the allying of different scientists who opposed his treatment of Oppenheimer.]]
** Finally, the film broaches the question of a simultaneous process of fission and fusion as the next step in nuclear weapons, as proposed by Edward Teller in creating a thermonuclear weapon (or a hydrogen bomb). [[spoiler: If we are to assume that Oppenheimer and Strauss's stories serve as a metaphor for these processes, we see the consequences of what happens when they do intersect: [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction.]]
** In the monochrome sequences, [[spoiler: Strauss's decision to humiliate Oppenheimer and neutralize his political influence grew from his own personal motivations, and he calls back to different aspects of Oppenheimer's life to weave a narrative of disloyalty. Strauss's own failure at his cabinet nomination was also defeated by the allying of different scientists who opposed his treatment of Oppenheimer.]]
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** In the monochrome sequences, [[spoiler: Strauss's decision to humiliate Oppenheimer and neutralize his political influence grew from hisown personal motivations, motivations and (perceived) slights, and he calls back to different aspects of Oppenheimer's life to weave a narrative of disloyalty. Strauss's own failure at his cabinet nomination was also defeated by the allying of different scientists and Senators who opposed his treatment of Oppenheimer.]]
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* The movie's [[RashomonStyle dual structure]] is deliberately divided between the color sequences (Fission) taken from Oppenheimer's point of view and the monochrome sequences (Fusion) from Strauss's point of view. At its most basic definition, fission is splitting bigger things into smaller things (e.g., splitting of the uranium atom). In contrast, fusion is the opposite - combining smaller things into a bigger thing (combining two hydrogen atoms to make one helium atom). This ties into the thematic narratives presented in the film:
** In the color sequences, [[spoiler:Oppenheimer's story in developing the atom bomb is gradually fractured into explorations of his scientific ambitions, his moral ethics and personal motivations, the politicization of his work, and the guilt and trauma he experienced after its usage. Scenes in color also incorporate aspects of psychological horror that Oppenheimer imagines that are separate from the actual story.]]
** In the monochrome sequences, [[spoiler: Strauss's decision to humiliate Oppenheimer and neutralize his political influence grew from his own personal motivations, and he calls back to different aspects of Oppenheimer's life to weave a narrative of disloyalty. Strauss's own failure at his cabinet nomination was also defeated by the allying of different scientists who opposed his treatment of Oppenheimer.]]
** Finally, the film broaches the question of a simultaneous process of fission and fusion as the next step in nuclear weapons, as proposed by Edward Teller in creating a thermonuclear weapon (or a hydrogen bomb). [[spoiler: If we are to assume that Oppenheimer and Strauss's stories serve as a metaphor for these processes, we see the consequences of what happens when they do intersect: [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction.]]
** In the color sequences, [[spoiler:Oppenheimer's story in developing the atom bomb is gradually fractured into explorations of his scientific ambitions, his moral ethics and personal motivations, the politicization of his work, and the guilt and trauma he experienced after its usage. Scenes in color also incorporate aspects of psychological horror that Oppenheimer imagines that are separate from the actual story.]]
** In the monochrome sequences, [[spoiler: Strauss's decision to humiliate Oppenheimer and neutralize his political influence grew from his own personal motivations, and he calls back to different aspects of Oppenheimer's life to weave a narrative of disloyalty. Strauss's own failure at his cabinet nomination was also defeated by the allying of different scientists who opposed his treatment of Oppenheimer.]]
** Finally, the film broaches the question of a simultaneous process of fission and fusion as the next step in nuclear weapons, as proposed by Edward Teller in creating a thermonuclear weapon (or a hydrogen bomb). [[spoiler: If we are to assume that Oppenheimer and Strauss's stories serve as a metaphor for these processes, we see the consequences of what happens when they do intersect: [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction.]]
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* Every explosion is shown before their sound is heard, but this works doubly in favor for The Trinity Test. When the bomb detonates, we see the bright flash, we see the explosion, the fireball and all that, but we never actually ''hear'' the sound until the fireball evaporates and the shockwave occurs. <s>This [s]This is because of the differentiation between how nuclear explosions are processed and how people see them versus how they get recorded.</s> [/s] This is because light travels faster than soundwaves. Although the movie uses this for dramatic effect, the most infamous example, and to date the only nuclear explosion with recorded sound, the Plumbbob Fizeau tests in 1957, [[https://youtu.be/szBRTPaoCM4&t=1m40s is a perfect showcase of this]].
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* Every explosion is shown before their sound is heard, but this works doubly in favor for The Trinity Test. When the bomb detonates, we see the bright flash, we see the explosion, the fireball and all that, but we never actually ''hear'' the sound until the fireball evaporates and the shockwave occurs. This is because of the differentiation between how nuclear explosions are processed and how people see them versus how they get recorded. Although the movie uses this for dramatic effect, the most infamous example, and to date the only nuclear explosion with recorded sound, the Plumbbob Fizeau tests in 1957, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/XPjB6x4bbtE?feature=share [[https://youtu.be/szBRTPaoCM4&t=1m40s is a perfect showcase of this]].
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* The Chevalier incident, which would eventually torpedo Oppenheimer's security clearance (and with it his--and Chevalier's--careers), might never have been a problem [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if Oppenheimer himself hadn't drawn the military's attention to it.]]
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* Early on in the film, Oppenheimer tells Lawrence that he thought he would have the perfect life if he could find a way to merge physics and the New Mexican landscape he dearly loved. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He found a way, all right.]]
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* The Chevalier incident, which would eventually torpedo Oppenheimer's security clearance (and with it his--and Chevalier's--careers), might never have been a problem [[NiceJobBreakingItHero if Oppenheimer himself hadn't drawn the military's attention to it.]]
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* Oppenheimer himself seemed to have torpedoed his chances at being a bigger force in post-war politics, souring Truman to him with his dramatics during their meeting, inadvertently turning Strauss against him with a wayward joke, and continuing his dramatics with the 1954 hearing, seeming to either martyr himself for the cause of non-proliferation or as an act of contrition to bleed off his guilt for making the bomb. If he had been less of an out and out idealist, too much of a poet, and played the politics game better, he could have kept a strong opposition to Strauss and the others who wanted to continue to push science regardless of the morals of the weapons they created.
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* Oppenheimer himself seemed to have torpedoed his chances at being a bigger force in post-war politics, souring Truman to him with his dramatics during their meeting, inadvertently turning Strauss against him with a wayward joke, and continuing his dramatics with the 1954 hearing, seeming to either martyr himself for the cause of non-proliferation or as an act of contrition to bleed off his guilt for making the bomb. If he had been less of an out and out idealist, too much of a poet, and played the politics game better, he could have kept a strong opposition to Strauss and the others who wanted to continue to push science regardless of the morals of the weapons they created.created.
* Early on in the film, Oppenheimer tells Lawrence that he thought he would have the perfect life if he could find a way to merge physics and the New Mexican landscape he dearly loved. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He found a way, all right.]]
* Early on in the film, Oppenheimer tells Lawrence that he thought he would have the perfect life if he could find a way to merge physics and the New Mexican landscape he dearly loved. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He found a way, all right.]]
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* The essential fact that Strauss was so mono-focused on his personal rivalry with Oppenheimer that, essentially, he missed the larger subject of their jobs over something as petty as office politics.
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* Oppenheimer himself seemed to have torpedoed his chances at being a bigger force in post-war politics, souring Truman to him with his dramatics during their meeting, inadvertently turning Strauss against him with a wayward joke, and continuing his dramatics with the 1954 hearing, seeming to either martyr himself for the cause of non-proliferation or as an act of contrition to bleed off his guilt for making the bomb. If he had been less of an out and out idealist, too much of a poet, and played the politics game better, he could have kept a strong opposition to Strauss and the others who wanted to continue to push science regardless of the morals of the weapons they created.
* Oppenheimer himself seemed to have torpedoed his chances at being a bigger force in post-war politics, souring Truman to him with his dramatics during their meeting, inadvertently turning Strauss against him with a wayward joke, and continuing his dramatics with the 1954 hearing, seeming to either martyr himself for the cause of non-proliferation or as an act of contrition to bleed off his guilt for making the bomb. If he had been less of an out and out idealist, too much of a poet, and played the politics game better, he could have kept a strong opposition to Strauss and the others who wanted to continue to push science regardless of the morals of the weapons they created.
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He’s saying they’d have to provide proof to the Nazis that detonating the bomb would kill everyone to ensure that the Nazis would believe them. Jews sharing their top secret research with Nazis is eminently distasteful, but it would have to be done to avoid extinction.
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* When Oppenheimer consults with Einstein on whether the math is correct that they would start a chain reaction that would ignite the atmosphere, Einstein says that if it is true that they would destroy the world with their test, then he should give it to the Nazis. Now, at first it may come off as strange he'd say this until you think about the implications. He's a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, and as far as he knows, he and Oppenheimer are working on a bomb that has a high chance of destroying the world. He's giving a final 'fuck you' to the Nazis and implying he'd rather see the world end than it being enslaved by them.
* When Oppenheimer consults with Einstein on whether the math is correct that they would start a chain reaction that would ignite the atmosphere, Einstein says that if it is true that they would destroy the world with their test, then he should give it to the Nazis. Now, at first it may come off as strange he'd say this until you think about the implications. He's a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, and as far as he knows, he and Oppenheimer are working on a bomb that has a high chance of destroying the world. He's giving a final 'fuck you' to the Nazis and implying he'd rather see the world end than it being enslaved by them.
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* When Oppenheimer consults with Einstein on whether the math is correct that they would start a chain reaction that would ignite the atmosphere, Einstein says that if it is true that they would destroy the world with their test, then he should give it to the Nazis. Now, at first it may come off as strange he'd say this until you think about the implications. He's a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, and as far as he knows, he and Oppenheimer are working on a bomb that has a high chance of destroying the world. He's giving a final 'fuck you' to the Nazis and implying he'd rather see the world end than it being enslaved by them.
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* The essential fact that Strauss was so mono-focused on his personal rivalry with Oppenheimer that, essentially, he missed the larger subject of their jobs over something as petty as office politics.politics.
* When Oppenheimer consults with Einstein on whether the math is correct that they would start a chain reaction that would ignite the atmosphere, Einstein says that if it is true that they would destroy the world with their test, then he should give it to the Nazis. Now, at first it may come off as strange he'd say this until you think about the implications. He's a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, and as far as he knows, he and Oppenheimer are working on a bomb that has a high chance of destroying the world. He's giving a final 'fuck you' to the Nazis and implying he'd rather see the world end than it being enslaved by them.
* When Oppenheimer consults with Einstein on whether the math is correct that they would start a chain reaction that would ignite the atmosphere, Einstein says that if it is true that they would destroy the world with their test, then he should give it to the Nazis. Now, at first it may come off as strange he'd say this until you think about the implications. He's a German Jew who fled the Holocaust, and as far as he knows, he and Oppenheimer are working on a bomb that has a high chance of destroying the world. He's giving a final 'fuck you' to the Nazis and implying he'd rather see the world end than it being enslaved by them.
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* Truman's annoyance at Oppenheimer's "blood on his hands" comment makes perfect sense given that he had been involved in far greater military decisions with far more death even before the bombings.bombings (the Battle of Okinawa, for example, killed 250,000 people on both sides, and every day of the Pacific War circa mid 1945 was costing tens of thousands of mostly-civilian deaths). Oppenheimer is basically accusing him of being far worse without saying so (or realizing it).
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* During the testing at Los Alamos, there is a particular character playing bongos while at the site. As showcased in Series/TheBigBangTheory, episode [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E18TheWerewolfTransformation The Werewolf Transformation]] we learn that Richard Feynman played the bongos. This little detail helps us identify who the particular scientist is without naming him. (Played by Creator/JackQuaid)
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* During the testing at Los Alamos, there is a particular character playing bongos while at the site. As showcased in Series/TheBigBangTheory, episode [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E18TheWerewolfTransformation The Werewolf Transformation]] we learn It’s a matter of record that Richard Feynman played the bongos. This little detail helps us identify who bongos, which identifies him as the particular scientist is without naming him. (Played by Creator/JackQuaid)drummer.
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* Every explosion is shown before the sound of said explosion is heard, but this works doubly in favor for The Trinity Test. When the bomb detonates, we see the bright flash, we see the explosion, the fireball and all that, but we never actually ''hear'' the sound until the fireball evaporates and the shockwave occurs. This is because of the differentiation of how nuclear explosions are processed how people see them vs. how they get recorded. Although the movie uses this for dramatic effect, the most infamous example, and to date the only nuclear explosion with recorded sound, the Plumbbob Fizeau tests in 1957, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/XPjB6x4bbtE?feature=share is a perfect showcase of this]].
** More obviously, the observers of the Trinity test were watching it from 6 miles away, which means the sound would have taken 30 seconds to reach them.
** More obviously, the observers of the Trinity test were watching it from 6 miles away, which means the sound would have taken 30 seconds to reach them.
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* Every explosion is shown before the their sound of said explosion is heard, but this works doubly in favor for The Trinity Test. When the bomb detonates, we see the bright flash, we see the explosion, the fireball and all that, but we never actually ''hear'' the sound until the fireball evaporates and the shockwave occurs. This is because of the differentiation of between how nuclear explosions are processed and how people see them vs. versus how they get recorded. Although the movie uses this for dramatic effect, the most infamous example, and to date the only nuclear explosion with recorded sound, the Plumbbob Fizeau tests in 1957, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/XPjB6x4bbtE?feature=share is a perfect showcase of this]].
** More obviously, the observers of the Trinity test were watching it from 6 miles away, which means the sound would have taken 30 seconds to reach them.this]].
** More obviously, the observers of the Trinity test were watching it from 6 miles away, which means the sound would have taken 30 seconds to reach them.
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* During the testing at Los Alamos, there is a particular character playing bongos while at the site. As showcased in Series/TheBigBangTheory, episode [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E18TheWerewolfTransformation The Werewolf Transformation]] we learn that Richard Feynman played the bongos. This little detail helps us identify who the particular scientist is without naming him.
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* During the testing at Los Alamos, there is a particular character playing bongos while at the site. As showcased in Series/TheBigBangTheory, episode [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E18TheWerewolfTransformation The Werewolf Transformation]] we learn that Richard Feynman played the bongos. This little detail helps us identify who the particular scientist is without naming him. (Played by Creator/JackQuaid)
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* Every explosion is shown before the sound of said explosion is heard, but this works doubly in favor for [[spoiler:The The Trinity Test. When the bomb detonates, we see the bright flash, we see the explosion, the fireball and all that, but we never actually ''hear'' the sound until the fireball evaporates and the shockwave occurs. This is because of the differentiation of how nuclear explosions are processed how people see them vs. how they get recorded. Although the movie uses this for dramatic effect, the most infamous example, and to date the only nuclear explosion with recorded sound, the Plumbbob Fizeau tests in 1957, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/XPjB6x4bbtE?feature=share is a perfect showcase of this]].]]
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* While he loses out on being the Secretary of Commerce, that really does little to salve the fact that Strauss was the expert people turned to on nuclear matters during the most formative years of the Cold War. His influence would be the biggest in developing things like the H-Bomb and thermonuclear warheads.
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* While he loses out on being the Secretary of Commerce, that really does little to salve the fact that Strauss was the expert people turned to on nuclear matters during the most formative years of the Cold War. His influence would be the biggest in developing things like the H-Bomb and thermonuclear warheads.warheads.
* The essential fact that Strauss was so mono-focused on his personal rivalry with Oppenheimer that, essentially, he missed the larger subject of their jobs over something as petty as office politics.
* The essential fact that Strauss was so mono-focused on his personal rivalry with Oppenheimer that, essentially, he missed the larger subject of their jobs over something as petty as office politics.
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* While he loses out on being the Secretary of Commerce, that really does little to salve the fact that Strauss was the expert people turned to on nuclear matters during the most formative years of the Cold War. His influence would be the biggest in developing things like the H-Bomb and thermonuclear warheads.
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* While he loses out on being the Secretary of Commerce, that really does little to salve the fact that Strauss was the expert people turned to on nuclear matters during the most formative years of the Cold War. His influence would be the biggest in developing things like the H-Bomb and thermonuclear warheads.
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* Every explosion is shown before the sound of said explosion is heard, but this works doubly in favour for [[spoiler:The Trinity Test. When the bomb detonates, we see the bright flash, we see the explosion, the fireball and all that, but we never actually ''hear'' the sound until the fireball evaporates and the shockwave occurs. This is because of the differentiation of how nuclear explosions are processed how people see them vs. how they get recorded. Although the movie uses this for dramatic effect, the most infamous example, and to date the only nuclear explosion with recorded sound, the Plumbbob Fizeau tests in 1957, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/XPjB6x4bbtE?feature=share is a perfect showcase of this]].]]
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* Every explosion is shown before the sound of said explosion is heard, but this works doubly in favour favor for [[spoiler:The Trinity Test. When the bomb detonates, we see the bright flash, we see the explosion, the fireball and all that, but we never actually ''hear'' the sound until the fireball evaporates and the shockwave occurs. This is because of the differentiation of how nuclear explosions are processed how people see them vs. how they get recorded. Although the movie uses this for dramatic effect, the most infamous example, and to date the only nuclear explosion with recorded sound, the Plumbbob Fizeau tests in 1957, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/XPjB6x4bbtE?feature=share is a perfect showcase of this]].]]
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* During the testing at Los Alamos, there is a particular character playing bongos while at the site. As showcased in Series/TheBigBangTheory, episode [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E18TheWerewolfTransformation The Werewolf Transformation]] we learn that Richard Feynman played the bongos. This little detail helps us identify who the particular scientist is without naming him.him.
* Truman's annoyance at Oppenheimer's "blood on his hands" comment makes perfect sense given that he had been involved in far greater military decisions with far more death even before the bombings. Oppenheimer is basically accusing him of being far worse without saying so (or realizing it).
* Truman's annoyance at Oppenheimer's "blood on his hands" comment makes perfect sense given that he had been involved in far greater military decisions with far more death even before the bombings. Oppenheimer is basically accusing him of being far worse without saying so (or realizing it).
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* Every explosion is shown before the sound of said explosion is heard, but this works doubly in favour for [[spoiler:The Trinity Test. When the bomb detonates, we see the bright flash, we see the explosion, the fireball and all that, but we never actually ''hear'' the sound until the fireball evaporates and the shockwave occurs. This is because of the differentiation of how nuclear explosions are processed how people see them vs. how they get recorded. Although the movie uses this for dramatic effect, the most infamous example, and to date the only nuclear explosion with recorded sound, the Plumbbob Fizeau tests in 1957, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/XPjB6x4bbtE?feature=share is a perfect showcase of this]].]]
** More obviously, the observers of the Trinity test were watching it from 6 miles away, which means the sound would have taken 30 seconds to reach them.
** More obviously, the observers of the Trinity test were watching it from 6 miles away, which means the sound would have taken 30 seconds to reach them.
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* During the testing at Los Alamos, there is a particular character playing bongos while at the site. As showcased in Series/TheBigBangTheory, episode [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E18TheWerewolfTransformation The Werewolf Transformation]] we learn that Richard Feynman played the bongos. This little detail helps us identify who the particular scientist is without naming him.
