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

Kaiser’s thesis is that quantum information science, which is beginning to have application to subjects such as cryptography, came into existence only as a result of the activities of a counterculture movement, or “hippies.” The curiously ambiguous nature of the connection between the mathematics of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brian Josephson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SSE 2012-06-01
Series:Journal of Scientific Exploration
Online Access:http://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/484