Norwegian "Heavy Water War" on Heisenberg et al.
Last night, I accidentally caught the offset episode of the Heavy Water War on TV, a (mostly) Norwegian 6-episode serial from early 2015 nearly the Norwegian heavy H2O sabotage during the Second World War.
The computer program was produced inward Norwegian-Danish-British coproduction, the budget was $10 1000000 or so, together with it was shot inward Kingdom of Norway together with Czechia. See a 6-minute trailer.
My agreement is that the computer program was mainly created to promote this courageous pic of the Norwegian folks during the war. Such "Old Norwegian Legends" are especially needed in all likelihood because the Norwegians convey go the ultimate symbols of collaborationists amongst the Nazis, together with the give-and-take "a quisling" – named afterward the Norwegian war-time leader Vidkun Quisling – became a synonym amongst a traitor who maximally cooperates amongst a Nazi or similar force.
OK, inward this program, nosotros tin scout a unlike Norway, a nation of brave chemists – such every bit Leif Tronstad, a Norwegian career chemist, heavy H2O worker, together with warrior on the British side – who were saving the earth from the High German nuclear Armageddon.
OK, much of the offset episode was nearly Werner Heisenberg. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 likable, modest, shy, pale-face guy who just got a Nobel prize together with heard some friendly comments from his older friend Bohr. Heisenberg was – inward reality together with inward this computer program – a High German patriot who wanted to alive inward Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany throughout his life together with who has refused offers from the U.S.
At the same moment, he was an honest together with bright scientist. So he of cast cited together with celebrated the Jewish scientists who convey made many of the cardinal discoveries inward modern physics. We could consider some Gestapo cops who were giving Heisenberg difficult fourth dimension because Werner dared to advert the Jewish scientists. In fact, it wasn't the entirely affair they had against him. They saw him together with immature scouts who were swimming naked – together with then they figured out that Heisenberg had to hold upwards homosexual. I didn't know nearly those accusations. His spousal human relationship had to hold upwards fake, the Nazis said, together with and then on. Heisenberg must convey faked his heterosexuality rather good together with happily because he ended upwards amongst seven children. But it's physically possible to exercise together with then fifty-fifty if 1 is "gay", of course. ;-)
OK, Heisenberg was thinking nearly some wide aspects of nuclear unloose energy – which went somewhat beyond \(E=mc^2\). So he understood the importance of the chain reaction which becomes stronger amongst fourth dimension together with he could calculate that 1 kilogram of uranium tin plough over you lot the same unloose energy every bit some fifteen kilotons of TNT: these are almost just the numbers describing the explosion of the Little Boy, the offset nuclear bomb that exploded to a higher house Hiroshima.
You may imagine that Heisenberg was largely nearly the scientific discipline together with he was thinking nearly the large unloose energy for its ain sake, every bit something that could hold upwards useful peacefully. But the generals or soldiers who accidentally attended his talks were entirely thrilled past times 1 thing. The unloose energy expressed inward the volume units of TNT sounds similar a bomb. So they could destroy London amongst this pineapple, they happily repeated afterward Heisenberg. They were wowed. "Could you lot delight repeat the judgement nearly the TNT, Prof Heisenberg!?"
Heisenberg was also shown every bit visiting Copenhagen (the Nazi permission to locomote to Kingdom of Denmark was a hurting inward the aß, too). The friendship was killed over there. The computer program realistically explains it every bit the final result of both men's cope on the contrary sides of the state of war – amongst their reservations but otherwise clearly. Bohr was in all likelihood shocked when he figured out that Heisenberg was working for the High German army. Heisenberg was an honest scientist but it's clear that he didn't desire Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany to lose the war.
The distance betwixt the persuasion "what the time to come should expect like" was only together with then large that fifty-fifty ii wise men whose thinking together with emotions were relatively some 1 another, Bohr together with Heisenberg, only ceased to hold upwards friends. The polarization was also strong. Bohr was in all likelihood working for the British regular army together with getting some surreptitious instructions etc. Heisenberg was getting orders from the Nazis. He hesitated but I justice that inward some large picture, he had to hold upwards obedient.
Because the authors are Norwegian, they generally focus on the Norwegian efforts to cripple the High German nuclear program. The primary achievement was to tiresome downwardly the production or transfer of heavy H2O from Kingdom of Norway to Germany. So the celluloid makes you lot believe that the survival of the mankind was (almost) all nearly 1 liter of heavy H2O that could convey been exported from Kingdom of Norway to Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany every hateful solar daytime or not. Well, I convey some problem to believe that this heavy H2O was that crucial. Heisenberg said he needed the heavy H2O but it in all likelihood wasn't everything he needed; together with mayhap he didn't quite demand it, or didn't demand also much of it.
OK, if you lot assume that this heavy H2O produced for the High German nuclear computer program was real important, it's an exciting story. Leif Tronstad realizes it's unsafe together with then he moved to the U.K. together with starts to cope along amongst the pragmatic together with effective Britons. To his surprise, his novel boss is woman individual – whose hubby was in all likelihood lately killed past times the Japanese. She's tough, she's skillful, she's professional. Some of the Norwegian fighters who came to cope along amongst the Britons are amateurs, however.
The storey that I silent believe to hold upwards right is that Heisenberg, despite his brilliance, made some basic errors inward the reasoning, or failed to brand some simple order-of-magnitude calculations, together with he decided that the critical volume of uranium had to hold upwards several tons together with the bomb was thence impossible for that reason. I am a theorist but I mean value that this agency to build the bomb had also much thinking. The propagation of neutrons may hold upwards complicated but fifty-fifty though I mean value every bit a theorist, if I were hired to create the bomb, I would in all likelihood evidence to exercise it past times case together with error. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pineapple of uranium is supposed to hold upwards plenty to destroy London past times a simple \(E=mc^2\) calculation, together with then I would only evidence to detonate a few pineapples of uranium using the best pressures I tin have, together with it would ultimately work, wouldn't it?
Concerning Kingdom of Norway together with fascism, permit me remind you lot that Kingdom of Norway has stolen the ii Czech boys. The Czech menage unit of measurement asked for a coming together of the boys amongst their grandad who was dying. Kingdom of Norway refused. The grandad Mr Michalák died yesterday. They're real savage fascists, indeed.
When nosotros were schoolkids inward the basic school, nosotros heard an choice explanation why the High German nuclear computer program was stopped from our instructor of the Czech linguistic communication together with literature, the anti-communist Ms Emilie Bezděková. She knew Ms Marie Uchytilová, a sculptor who created the large sculptural grouping of the kids of Lidice, the hamlet that was razed past times the Nazis every bit a retaliation for the execution of Reinhard Heydrich. She was also the writer of the most famous Czechoslovak coin, the adult woman seeding a flower.
OK, Ms Bezděková told us that during the war, Ms Uchytilová was interned inward a concentration army camp somewhere inward Northwestern Bohemia or the nearby Saxony (could it convey been Falkenau? And is it the Czech Sokolov or some other Falkenau? I mean value so, it must convey been the woman individual army camp inward Svatava/Zwodau) together with they were doing some function that was also of import for the High German nuclear bomb. Ms Uchytilová has sabotaged the High German nuclear bomb because she was grooming herself to audio every bit a siren, together with she has repeatedly started the siren audio together with delayed the structure of the High German nuclear bomb. I forgot the details, it's xxx years agone when I heard that story. ;-) But yes, I convey some doubts whether the physics every bit understood either past times Ms Bezděková or Ms Uchytilová could hold upwards perfectly trusted...
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