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

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by Kaiser, David


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  Index

  Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

  Aberdeen Proving Ground

  Actors’ Equity union

  Adleman, Leonard

  Adventures in Ideas,

  Aerospace Research Laboratory

  Age of Entanglement, The (Gilder)

  Air Force, U.S.

  Albright, Madeleine

  alchemy

  Aldrin, Edwin “Buzz,”

  Alpert, Richard (Ram Dass)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  American Association of Physics Teachers

  American Book Award

  American Graffiti (film)

  American Institute of Physics

  American Institutes for Research

  American Journal of Physics,

  American Journal of Psychiatry,

  American Philosophical Society

  American Physical Society

  American Rocket Company

  American Society for Psychical Research

  Ames Research Center

  Anaximander

  Anchor Books

  angular momentum

  anomalies

  antiproton

  Apollo 14 mission

  Apple Computer

  Aristotle

  Army, U.S.

  arXiv.org

  Asimov, Isaac

  Aspect, Alain

  experimental test of Bell’s theorem

  nonlocality demonstrated by

  atomic bomb

  Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

  Atomic Energy Research Establishment

  Austin Society to Oppose Pseudosciences (ASTOP)

  Austria

  Aykroyd, Dan

  Bantam (publisher)

  Bartell, Larry

  Bauersfeld, Erik

  BB84 protocol

  Bearden, Tom

  Beat generation

  Beatles

  Be Here Now (Ram Dass)

  Be-In

  “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” (song)

  Bell, John S.

  Clauser and

  doubts about quantum theory of

  EPR experiment and

  hidden-variable model and

  psi research as viewed by

  Reality Foundation Prize awarded to

  Bell, Mary

  Bell Labs

  Bell’s theorem

  annual citations to

  Aspect’s work on

  Clauser-Shimony collaboration and

  Clauser’s interpretation of

  Esalen and

  faster-than-light communication and

  first experimental test of

  formulation of

  Fundamental Fysiks Group and

  in physics education

  in physics literature

  quantum encryption and

  significance of

  “Bell’s theorem and superluminal signals” (Herbert)

  “Bell’s theorem and the different concepts of locality” (Eberhard)

  “Bell’s theorem and the necessity of superluminal quantum information transfer” (Sarfatti)

  “Bell’s Theorem Blues” (song)

  Bell Telephone

  Belushi, John

  Bennett, Charles

  Bergson, Henri

  Berkeley, George

  Bernstein, Jeremy

  Beth, Richard

  Beyond Telepathy (Puharich)

  biorhythms

  Birkbeck College

  Birmingham University

  black holes

  Black Panthers

  Blues Brothers, The (film)

  Blume, Keith

  Bohm, David

  Geller investigated by

  hidden-variables model and

  Bohr, Niels

  double-slit experiment and

  Borges, Jorge Luis

  Born, Max

  Boston University

  Brand, Stewart

  Brandeis University

  Brandon, Charles

  Brassard, Gilles

  Bridgman, Percy

  British Broadcasting Company

  British Society for Psychical Research

  Brockman, John

  Buddhism

  Bulletin of the American Physical Society,

  Bureau of Labor Statistics

  Bureau of Standards, U.S.

  Burroughs, William

  BusinessWeek

  Butler, Lee Porter

  Cage, John

  Cahill, Thomas

  California, University of

  at Berkeley, see Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

  at San Francisco

  at Santa Cruz

  California Living Magazine,

  Callan, Curtis

  Caltech

  Cambridge University

  Cameroon

  Capra, Fritjof

  career of

  critics of

  fame of

  Fundamental Fysiks Group and

  mysticism interest of

  new worldview of

  see also Tao of Physics, The

  Carter, Jimmy

  Center for Ecoliteracy

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  i2 Associates proposal and

  psi phenomena research and

  remote-viewing research and

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

  CERN

  Chaffee, Suzy

  chaos theory

  Chávez, Hugo

  Chew, Geoffrey

  Chickering, A. Lawrence “Lawry,”

  Chirac, Jacques

  Chomsky, Noam

  Christianity

  CHSH inequality

  circular polarization

  City of San Francisco

  civil rights movement

  clairvoyance

  Clarke, Arthur C.

  Clauser, John

  Aspect and

  Bell’s theorem interest of

  Fundamental Fysiks Group and

 

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