if I were a physicist I would simply not become death the destroyer of worlds
We can't avoid learning and discovering the power of nature and what makes stuff up. It is governments and the military who see the potential to kill or destory others. Most scientists want to make the world a better place, to do that we need to experiment, learn and develop our knowledge.
Once that knowledge is published it ends up out of our hands how others use it.
@zleap yup. "if I don't build the machinery of horrifying atrocity someone else will" is definitely the kind of thinking that prevents horrifying atrocities and a normal harmless thought for a curious mind to have
I am sure Einstein s idea being e=mc^2 was energy and power stations not atomic weapons.
