How the hippies saved physics : science, counterculture, and the quantum revival
Title:
How the hippies saved physics : science, counterculture, and the quantum revival
Author:
Kaiser, David, author.
ISBN:
9780393342314
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Physical Description:
xxvi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
"First published as a Norton paperback 2012"--T.p. verso
Contents:
"Shut up and calculate" -- "Spooky actions at a distance" -- Entanglements -- From [psi] 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
Abstract:
"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"--P. [4] of cover
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