How the hippies saved physics: science, counterculture, and the quantum revival

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In the 1970s, a small group of physicists in Berkeley decided to explore the wilder side of science, pursuing a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Unlikely as it may seem, this quirky band of misfits altered the course of modern physics.
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