How the hippies saved physics : science, counterculture, and the quantum revival /

How the hippies saved physics : science, counterculture, and the quantum revival /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kaiser, David.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Description:	xxvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.) Physicists -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography. Quantum theory. Counterculture. Counterculture. Physicists. Quantum theory. California -- Berkeley. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8437386

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Other authors / contributors:	Fundamental Fysiks Group (Berkeley, Calif.)
ISBN:	9780393076363 (hardcover) 0393076369 (hardcover)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1. "Shut Up and Calculate"
Chapter 2. "Spooky Actions at a Distance"
Chapter 3. Entanglements
Chapter 4. From? to Psi
Chapter 5. New Patrons, New Forums
Chapter 6. Spreading (and Selling) the Word
Chapter 7. Zen and the Art of Textbook Publishing
Chapter 8. Fringe?!
Chapter 9. From FLASH to Quantum Encryption
Chapter 10. The Roads from Berkeley
Coda: Ideas and Institutions in the Quantum Revival
Acknowledgments
Notes
Interviews
Bibliography
Index