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

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Blackstone Audio, 2011

Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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Author: Kaiser, David

Edition: 2nd ed

Date:

Issued
2013

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.

Genre:
Biographies and autobiographies, Math and science

Sujets: Counterculture | Physics | Quantum theory | California--Berkeley | Hippies

Original Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2011

Language(s): English