{"id":544,"date":"2011-07-30T22:40:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T04:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2011-07-30T22:40:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T04:40:37","slug":"review-how-the-hippies-saved-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Review: How the Hippies Saved Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11048785-how-the-hippies-saved-physics\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51fnNNmnjTL._SX106_.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11048785-how-the-hippies-saved-physics\">How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/21169.David_Kaiser\">David Kaiser<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/190493553\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very enjoyable listen (I did the audiobook).  I&#8217;ve read several books along these lines &#8212; a &#8220;history of physics&#8221; which is very people driven.  This isn&#8217;t bad, and this book freely admits to being focused primarily around a group of people (those in the fundamental fysiks group).  I very much enjoyed this book, and finding out much more details of the history &#8212; a bit of how the hippies got me into physics!  I remember reading the Dancing Wu-Li Masters both in High School and again in undergrad, and seeing (lots!) of Sarfatti on sci.physics, and many more of the tidbits as I got into physics.  I even used Dr. Quantum youtubes in teaching my physics classes.<\/p>\n<p>The book makes a compelling case about the interesting role that this group of non-traditional physicists &#8220;kept hope alive&#8221; and finishes with a compelling question: Why has the fundamental fysics groups been written out of physics history?<\/p>\n<p>One complaint (just audiobook) &#8212; I&#8217;ve never considered the arXiv to be pronounced &#8220;R-Ziv&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/3346363-matt-heavner\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser My rating: 4 of 5 stars A very enjoyable listen (I did the audiobook). I&#8217;ve read several books along these lines &#8212; a &#8220;history of physics&#8221; which is very people driven. This isn&#8217;t bad, and this book freely admits to being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: How the Hippies Saved Physics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-8M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}