Oppenheimer: Blinded by the Light

"The important thing isn't can you read music, it's can you hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert?"

In the opening chapters of Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer, the young physicist is shown as suffering from almost rapturous visions. He can’t keep the tangled waves of light out of his mind; he can “see” the quantum universe. It separates him from others. It makes him special. It makes him a freak. Like Mozart, he can perceive a world that he can b…