<nyt_byline>[In a current thread about "DMT" I've noticed that a couple of people have a real issue around the use of mind altering compounds. Obviously they have never experimented with this aspect of their consciousness. Don't forget that some of the most brilliant thinkers/inventors/developers in Silicon Valley were major acid heads and that some of their breakthroughs in thinking may have been due in part to their use of mind-expanding "drugs." Some of you might not like hearing this, but that's OK--until you've tried it, (under proper set and setting and with w/ guidance, of course) don't knock it. FWIW: I've probably "tripped" well over a hundred of times, go ahead sue me --chris]
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
Review By GEORGE JOHNSON[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif] [/FONT]</nyt_byline><nyt_text>Dr. Quantum was a cartoon rendition of Fred Alan Wolf, who resigned from the physics faculty at San Diego State College in the mid-1970s to become a New Age vaudevillian, combining motivational speaking, quantum weirdness and magic tricks in an act that opened several times for Timothy Leary. By then Wolf was running with the Fundamental Fysiks Group, a Bay Area collective driven by the notion that quantum mechanics, maybe with the help of a little LSD, could be harnessed to convey psychic powers. Concentrate hard enough and perhaps you really could levitate the Pentagon.What The Bleep Do We Know? a spaced-out concoction of quasi physics and neuroscience that appeared several years ago, promised moviegoers that they could hop between parallel universes and leap back and forth in time — if only they cast off their mental filters and experienced reality full blast. Interviews of scientists were crosscut with those of self-proclaimed mystics, and swooping in to explain the physics was Dr. Quantum, a cartoon superhero who joyfully demonstrated concepts like wave-particle duality, extra dimensions and quantum entanglement. Wiggling his eyebrows, the good doctor ominously asked, “Are we far enough down the rabbit hole yet?” All that was missing was Grace Slick wailing in the background with Jorma Kaukonen on guitar.
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Rest of the New York Times review HERE: (Highly recommended)
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
Review By GEORGE JOHNSON[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif] [/FONT]</nyt_byline><nyt_text>Dr. Quantum was a cartoon rendition of Fred Alan Wolf, who resigned from the physics faculty at San Diego State College in the mid-1970s to become a New Age vaudevillian, combining motivational speaking, quantum weirdness and magic tricks in an act that opened several times for Timothy Leary. By then Wolf was running with the Fundamental Fysiks Group, a Bay Area collective driven by the notion that quantum mechanics, maybe with the help of a little LSD, could be harnessed to convey psychic powers. Concentrate hard enough and perhaps you really could levitate the Pentagon.What The Bleep Do We Know? a spaced-out concoction of quasi physics and neuroscience that appeared several years ago, promised moviegoers that they could hop between parallel universes and leap back and forth in time — if only they cast off their mental filters and experienced reality full blast. Interviews of scientists were crosscut with those of self-proclaimed mystics, and swooping in to explain the physics was Dr. Quantum, a cartoon superhero who joyfully demonstrated concepts like wave-particle duality, extra dimensions and quantum entanglement. Wiggling his eyebrows, the good doctor ominously asked, “Are we far enough down the rabbit hole yet?” All that was missing was Grace Slick wailing in the background with Jorma Kaukonen on guitar.
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Rest of the New York Times review HERE: (Highly recommended)