How the Hippies Saved Physics

This book by David Kaiser came up once on Joe Rogan in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Julia Mossbridge. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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.