Black and white photograph from the middle of the Cold War.
The strangely beautiful expanding bubble formed just as an atomic bomb is exploded. Nevada Desert, 1952.
Three milliseconds after an atomic explosion, 1952
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I might say “beautiful” if I didn’t know what it was.
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Intrinsically, there is beauty in that image. Just as there is beauty in a Bengal Tiger!
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Well … that’s a tad mind expanding ain’t it.
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I am wondering if this is what the Big Bang looked like from the outside. Perhaps it still does!
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I don’t see it as beautiful … without even knowing what it was my immediate thought was “evil” … 😦
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Ahh, but there can be beauty in evil. Look at Mae West! (I often do)
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Destruction before creation that is the law of the universe.
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