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David Kaiser: How the hippies saved physics (2011, W.W. Norton)

Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered …

Review of 'How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival' on 'Goodreads'

Extremely unconvincing, and contrary to what some other reviewers wrote, the physics was not well presented.
'The EPR authors described a source, such as a radioactive nucleus, that shot out pairs of particles with the same speed but in opposite directions. Call the left-moving particle “A,” and the right-moving particle “B.” A physicist could measure A’s position at a given moment, and thereby deduce the value of B’s position. Meanwhile, the physicist could measure B’s momentum at that same moment, thus capturing knowledge of B’s momentum and simultaneous position to any desired accuracy.'
This is blatantly wrong. EPR was about measuring position OR momentum but never about knowing both at the same time!