[P2P-F] Hippies, and Physics!

[Paul Hughes]

Actually a book called, "How the Hippies Saved Physics", just came out.

~Paul


On Mar 5, 2012, at 1:53 AM, robert searle <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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> Ref from a Radio Four BBC (Today Programme)
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> "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. 
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> Also, other relevant data...
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> http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-hippie-days-countercultural-scientists-physics.html
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> See more
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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...
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