:04:01
or a block of ice
and nobody to enjoy it.
:04:05
''Odi et amor'',
''I hate and I love.''
:04:07
- Catullus. Do you know it?
- No.
:04:12
I hate and I love
Why, you ask? I don't know
:04:17
I feel both
And I'm in agony
:04:21
Maybe General Groves is right. Maybe
we should just banish thinking forever.
:04:30
Michael, we have to test
the critical mass.
:04:33
- Are you going to help?
- Of course.
:04:38
I want to show you something.
:04:57
Come here to see our little toy, huh?
:05:02
Michael, that's what we call
tickling the dragon's tail.
:05:07
So a slug of uranium
about two by six inches
:05:10
will be pulled by this weight.
:05:13
It begins here, then accelerates
at 32 feet per second per second.
:05:17
It passes between uranium bricks.
We have an instant of criticality.
:05:21
For a split second,
we have a chain reaction.
:05:25
As close as we come
to an atomic explosion in the lab.
:05:28
- Without blowing up.
- Exactly.
:05:30
It's essential to determine the amount
of material the device needs.
:05:34
Ten years ago I could
hardly imagine the stuff.
:05:37
Ten years.
:05:39
Each molecule collected
out of the air, one by one.
:05:45
Hello?
:05:49
What?