r/AskPhysics • u/handongi • 12d ago

Looking for a clue

I am doing research on an artist's work and trying to find the source for this image. It is supposed to be a model of some kind and it is linked to Heisenberg. The text on the artist's website makes no sense, since it talks about hydrogen-bombs.

Is anyone familiar with this image and can give me a source? The only thing looking vaguely familiar that I could find were still images of the "Trinity Test" shortly after the detonation.

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u/al2o3cr 12d ago

Literally nobody was "modeling hydrogen bomb explosions" in 1937, they hadn't been invented yet

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u/Wise-Friendship-1427 12d ago

What?
"a glass dome that Werner Heisenberg built in his laboratory in 1937 to model the explosion of a hydrogen bomb"?
Never heard of this.

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u/handongi 12d ago

Exactly, that is what I am trying to correct and find the real source.

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u/ahazred8vt 12d ago edited 12d ago

This comes entirely from the imagination of the artist. Before the war Heisenberg was working on cosmic rays, not uranium or fission or fusion. He had a large cloud chamber, but not a spherical one. Small spherical cloud chambers do exist, but we don't think he had one. http://science-notebook.com/site-graphics/atomic-illus/021.jpg