[sudo-discuss] first friday - great alternative funding discussion - try reading HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS

[Romy Ilano]

I didn't participate in the amazing alternative funding discussion going on
in the main room friday night.
wow! it was really neat.i  overheard a tiny bit of it.

http://www.hippiessavedphysics.com
you'd like  HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS
it discusses the role of unusual self-help gurus like eckhard tolle during
the 1970s. weird rich guys like that saved the discipline of quantum
physics during a time of deep government cutbacks. a lot of those physics
phds were unemployed and working in factories.

very neat stuff, especially considering that quantum physics is used today
for the most sophisticated bank encryption.
i enjoyed the book even though i'm not a physics expert.

the mixture of lsd + ESP studies and the colorful people is very
entertaining to say the very least!
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