How the Hippies Saved Physics
Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
By David Kaiser
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393342314, 378pp.)
Publication Date: July 2012
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Compact Disc, Compact Disc, MP3 CD
Categories: History, Quantum Theory
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Description
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.
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