How the Hippies Saved Physics

by David Kaiser · 2011
Cover of How the Hippies Saved Physics

Mentioned in 1 episodes across 1 podcast: Joe Rogan Experience.

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ISBN 9780393076363

About the book

Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered the course of modern physics while studying quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading while lounging in hot tubs and dabbling with LSD.

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Joe Rogan Experience

  • #2496 - Julia Mossbridge · 2026-05-08 · with Julia Mossbridge
    “Yeah. And also you find yourself looking right into mind. I really do think there's something to the more you look into physics, the more you look into mind. I mean, all the physicists from the jewelry that book, how the hippies saved physics. No. Oh, sweet. Yeah. Sweet. Good book about like the 70s and S1 and…”
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