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ISBN13: 9781416934448

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Published: 03/27/2011

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival AUTH-10498291 Drawing on a range ofIn 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