How the Hippies Saved Physics Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum

Name: How the Hippies Saved Physics Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum
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ISBN: 9780393342314

ISBN-10: 039334231X

ISBN-13: 9780393342314

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Kaiser

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In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the Fundamental Fysiks Group, they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics, studying quantum entanglement in terms of Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading. As David Kaiser reveals, these unlikely heroes spun modern physics in a new direction, forcing mainstream physicists to pay attention to the strange but exciting underpinnings of quantum theory.It’s rare to find quantum physics mentioned in the same breath with sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. . . . I heartily enjoyed How the Hippies Saved Physics.—Wall Street JournalIt is hard…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at MIT. He is the author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics, and editor of Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (MIT Press).



Introduction



"Shut Up and Calculate"



"Spooky Actions at a Distance"



Entanglements



From ï¿½ 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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Interviews


Bibliography


Index