“From the Streets into Academia”: Political Activism and the Reconfiguration of Physics Around 1970

摘要: The political and cultural unrest of the late 1960s influenced debate on quantum physics by helping those who wanted to push research foundations from margins mainstream physics. Italian Physical Society was at risk split apart due dissensions in universities, president time, Toraldo di Francia, thought that bringing a controversial scientific topic forefront might stall split. Franco Selleri’s proposal dedicate 1970 Varenna summer school mechanics accepted Bernard d’Espagnat invited head it set diplomatic rules for managing controversy. Woodstock dissidents. Wigner made keynote address different interpretations theory were presented. Shimony Bell spoke experiments testing locality mechanics. Zeh presented what would be later called decoherence approach measurement problem. dissidents left dissidence aside concentrate Later on, escalated European settings while other side Atlantic, editor Physics Today, under pressure American rally against Vietnam War, decided feature less topics. Bryce DeWitt publish paper many mechanics, including Everett’s worlds interpretation. A huge erupted magazine after DeWitt’s paper. In this chapter we will show how physicists exploited climate changes science establishment, its agenda.