History is made of small indecipherable moments in which a small decision can change the course of Humanity. If Stefan Zweig had lived long enough in his exile he would probably have included in a second part of his “ Stellar Moments of Humanity ” the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen . . A short ten-minute walk through the cold nights of the Danish capital that could have changed the history of humanity. In the absence of Zweig the English writer and playwright Michael Frayn in turned this meeting into one of the great theatrical texts that closed the th century.
A short and eternal century exaggerated witness of the worst and the best of what human beings can be capable of. A textual theater that narrates the supervised and brief ten-minute walk between two theoretical physicists teacher and disciple with CXB Directory which the point of no return of the human being is traced. That stellar moment from which Homo Sapiens Sapiens will have the capacity to self-destruct to annihilate to exterminate itself simply by pressing a button. Ordinary beings are not yet able to fully understand the scope of quantum physics and we try to grab onto the dry branches that populate the scenery as if it were an abandoned brain to avoid falling into the abyss of ignorance. m Two men walking hand in hand and distant at the same time in front of the precipice of knowledge.
Two human beings who live immersed in their mathematical formulas and their physical theories and when they raise their hand from the desk and look at each other they are aware that they have just made possible the most terrible weapon of war that centuries have seen. An exact moment in which it is impossible to determine the exact position of each of them. The entire Humanity represented by Margrethe Nørlund Bohl 's wife as a suffering witness of this moment from which its total extermination will be just a button away.
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