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NNadir

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Fri Apr 3, 2026, 06:30 PM Friday

How 0.7 Grams of Matter Destroyed Hiroshima [View all]

Richard Feynman as an old man explains:

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esterday I accidentally dropped a box full of paperclips and I nearly cr*pped myself. Fortunately the strong nuclear force stayed intact and the milky way didn't explode.
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One of the interesting things in the talk is the statement subtly made that the law of conservation of matter does not actually hold for chemical reactions
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