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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Physicist’s Way’ by P. James E. Peebles

What principles guide physicists’ ways of thinking and the practice and culture of the discipline? In “The Physicist’s Way,” the Nobel Prize–winning physicist P.J.E. Peebles argues that definite assumptions underpin the working physicist’s approach, the elements of which are learned organically by incoming generations of students and shared across the field. Peebles outlines these basic principles, elucidating how physicists apply their approach to a broad range of topics, from quantum physics t