Ref from a Radio Four BBC (Today Programme) "Hippies" is not a term that normally springs to mind when you think about the hard, number-crunching work of theoretical physicists, such as those who built the Large Hadron Collider. But as science correspondent Tom Feilden reports, the liberating approach of counter-culture revolutionaries may have played an important part in setting physicists free ...to day-dream again. Also, other relevant data... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-hippie-days-countercultural-scientists-p... See more Hippie days: How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s www.physorg.com Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely discussed in mainstream science: entanglement. Did subatomic particles influence each othe...
Actually a book called, "How the Hippies Saved Physics", just came out. ~Paul On Mar 5, 2012, at 1:53 AM, robert searle <[email protected]> wrote:
Ref from a Radio Four BBC (Today Programme)
"Hippies" is not a term that normally springs to mind when you think about the hard, number-crunching work of theoretical physicists, such as those who built the Large Hadron Collider. But as science correspondent Tom Feilden reports, the liberating approach of counter-culture revolutionaries may have played an important part in setting physicists free ...to day-dream again.
Also, other relevant data...
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-hippie-days-countercultural-scientists-p...
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Hippie days: How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s www.physorg.com Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely discussed in mainstream science: entanglement. Did subatomic particles influence each othe... _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
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