David Kaiser

discusses

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

This event includes a book signing

Date

Sep
13
Thursday
September 13, 2012
7:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome MIT's DAVID KAISER for a discussion of his latest book, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival.

In the 1970s, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics, studying quantum entanglement in terms of Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading. As David Kaiser reveals, these unlikely heroes spun modern physics in a new direction, forcing mainstream physicists to pay attention to the strange but exciting underpinnings of quantum theory.

“It’s rare to find quantum physics mentioned in the same breath with sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. . . . I heartily enjoyed How the Hippies Saved Physics.” —Wall Street Journal

“Meticulously researched and unapologetically romantic, How the Hippies Saved Physics makes the history of science fun again.” —Science

David Kaiser
David Kaiser

David Kaiser

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT. He is the author of award-winning books Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of the Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics and How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, and editor of Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision and Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, among othersHe is presently Chair of the Editorial Board of MIT Press, and also serves on the advisory boards for Nautilus and Undark magazines.

Photo Credit: Donna Coveney

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