liketheday 's review for:

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

3.0

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This book is not exactly about how hippies saved physics. The title is based off of some study called How the Irish Saved Civilization, and the hyperbole is intentional, so I guess I’ll let it slide. It is about hippies, and about hippies doing physics, and about hippies doing really weird things with physics, so if you’re into that sort of thing you won’t be disappointed.
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