Timeline for Why did it take an army of physicists, working on a huge complex, so long to produce a working nuclear device, while it seems so easy in theory?
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| Dec 26, 2017 at 18:08 | comment | added | user6552 | @descheleschilder They were (apparently) physically and manually integrating using the Runge-Kutta scheme one step at the time. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 16:30 | comment | added | Deschele Schilder | Wow, man! That also very nice to know!.Especially when I try to visualize the chains of women in long rows manually integrating one step of a calculation and physically passing their result to the person in the row. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 15:44 | comment | added | user6552 | @descheleschilder FYI Feynman made an early very positive impression with the bigshots by organizing the computations, i.e. segmenting the tasks in doable chunks and managing the humans in charge of the calculations. (I believe the human computers were in many cases wifes of scientists working more directly on the design, but I could be wrong.) In a different direction, Chandrasekhar apparently "solved" the various stellar structure equations by having chains of women in long rows manually integrating one step of a calculation and physically passing their result to the person in the row. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 10:57 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | "Best (most informative) answer of all!" I agree. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 4:50 | comment | added | Deschele Schilder | in an age where all computers were human. I like that! Best (most informative) answer of all! | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 4:48 | vote | accept | Deschele Schilder | ||
| Dec 26, 2017 at 4:17 | history | answered | user6552 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |