How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
by:
David Kaiser (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441789822 (1441789820)
Publish date: June 1st 2011
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 11
Edition language: English
Meh. EST plus Uri Gellar plus Berkeley do not a narrative make. This was alternately deadly and laughable. I like the premise, I really do, but I don't think Kaiser does justice to it. Maybe the hippies DID save physics, maybe they didn't. This book doesn't convince me, and it put me to sleep multip...
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How the Hippies Saved Physics is a fantastically kooky and zany history of the fringes of physics research in the 1960s and 1970s. The premise is certainly intriguing. Kaiser argues that the Second World War and the Cold War had relegated physics in America to number crunching and practical applicat...
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