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!