How the hippies saved physics
Subtitle: science, counterculture, and the quantum revival
By: David Kaiser
Contributors: Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780393076363
Subjects: Quantum theory; Counterculture; Physicists; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.