Board Thread:Anime/Game Discussion/@comment-29981284-20161228210504/@comment-4148373-20190322060519

Red anvil wrote: There's no need to repeat yourself every time someone disagrees with you, also, sorry if i say this, but calling him guilty for alll who died because of stands is just nonsense, on this i'm going to say that he has literally 0% fault, he had no way of knowing, it's like saying that Einstain is responsible for the atomic bombs because the idea started from his theories, or saying that one of Hitler's ancestors that lived in the stone age is partly responsible for the genocide in WW2, i get it, you feel like Diavolo is evil and you are right, but this doesn't mean that you can call him responsible for anything he did not on purpose as well.

Also, think twice before saying stuff like: "anyone who truly disregards life like that for the sake of something like anonymity truly deserves to have their life abused to the same degree", this is considered a very messed up way of thinking by many, and I hope you don't really mean it. Just going to have to chime in here and say that Einstein's theory is rather tangential to the development of nuclear weapons, at best. His equation predicted that a lot of energy could be gained from a small amount of matter. That's about it. I'm not sure his name came up more than once or twice in a book I read on the history nuclear physics and power. His equations are part of the math that can calculate the energy produced by fission, but Einstein's work overall isn't all that integral to the development of the nuclear bomb.

Ernest Ruthford's work was what really laid the foundations for the bombs, not Einstein, and his work was contemporaneous with Einstein's. Rutherford's work alone might have resulted in fission bombs, no relativity needed, beyond maybe certain yield calculations. Even those seem to have been less than precise, because the yield was double the highest expected value, and 4 times the commonly expected yield, in the Trinity test.

Einstien did a write a letter about the subject of nuclear weapons to Roosevelt, due to concerns that Germany was developing such weapons, at least partially acting as a go-between for Leo Szilard, amongst others. Szilard is the guy who first came up with the concept of a nuclear chain reaction, based on some of Rutherford's work. So he did seriously impact the Manhattan Project's existence. But his work, while at least somewhat related, wasn't really the bedrock of nuclear physics.