SciShow on Instagram: "Sometimes, being an expert in one scientific field doesn’t translate to another. But then there’s Luis Alvarez, a particle physicist who helped expand our knowledge of the world by investigating everything from atomic bombs, to Egyptian pyramids, to what actually killed the dinosaurs. This video was inspired by Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs, a new book by Alec Nevala-Lee. If you’d like to check it out, head to the SciShow Bo

THE GOOD FILMS on Instagram: "One of the most haunting scenes ever put on film — and one of the most realistic depictions of an atomic explosion in movie history. No soundtrack during the explosion makes it eerily realistic — nuclear blasts are silent before the shockwave hits. Director James Cameron worked with actual scientific research to make the blast’s behavior as accurate as possible: heat flash, shockwave, instant vaporization, and the “nuclear wind” that follows. Many nuclear experts at