Quantum Consciousness Crosses the Atlantic

In many respects, physics at Princeton in the 1950s resembled physics at Copenhagen in the 1920s. In both cities, great scientific minds gathered together to solve outstanding problems of the time. If Copenhagen was the birthplace of quantum mechanics, then Princeton witnessed its adolescence in application and generalization. The similarity between the two cities goes farther. Philosophical speculations on matters beyond physics in Copenhagen, which contributed to the mysticism attached to quantum mechanics, continued in Princeton. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, and John Wheeler continued the philosophical and mystical tradition of Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Pauli.