Bibliograph

How the hippies saved physics, science, counterculture, and the quantum revival, David Kaiser

Type

Label

How the hippies saved physics, science, counterculture, and the quantum revival, David Kaiser

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How the hippies saved physics

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

668194856

Responsibility statement

David Kaiser

Sub title

science, counterculture, and the quantum revival

Summary

Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered the course of modern physics while studying quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading while lounging in hot tubs and dabbling with LSD

Table Of Contents

505-00/(S, "Shut up and calculate" -- "Spooky actions at a distance" -- Entanglements -- From Ψ to Psi -- New patrons, new forums -- Spreading (and selling) the word -- Zen and the art of textbook publishing -- Fringe?! -- From FLASH to quantum encryption -- The roads from Berkeley -- Ideas and institutions in the quantum revival

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