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|title=How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

|author=David Kaiser

|publisher=W.W.Norton

|date=August 2012

|website=http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/

|video=Ke5LblGfln4

|summary=An odd bunch of young physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the alternative side of science. The Fundamental Fysiks Group, pursued a daring and original aspect of physics, studying quantum entanglement in terms of Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading.

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In his introduction Professor Kaiser states that there are three ways in which the west coast hippies have benefited the development of Physics; they opened up deeper speculation into the fundamental philosophy behind quantum theory, they latched on to a crucial theorem of Bell, about what Einstein termed ''spooky'' interactions between particles at a distance. This might otherwise have been totally neglected. Thirdly they propounded a key idea which has become known as the ''no-cloning theorem''. Kaiser tells a lucid account as might be expected from the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and department chief in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's program. Incidentally he also provides an engaging insight into the American industrial-military complex and associated institutions like the University of California at Berkeley.