44 years ago, More is Different enlightened the world of condensed matter physicists. This article “cajoled” a number of young physicists to step into condensed matter Physics, and has been widely used to counterattack the superiority of fundamental theory. Moreover, a so-called unified theory in condensed matter Physics was proposed recently to overtake the status of fundamental laws of Physics, within which one can only find something ambiguous, not even similar.
We offer the opposition of More is Different. This article
Fundamental Theorists & Condensed Matter Physicists — Matter and Laws
reveals several fallacies induced by reusing the name of several concepts in fundamental theory and deriving seemingly strong but actually weak conclusions. As an instance, spontaneous symmetry breaking has been widely used to attack the applicability of fundamental theory. However, this in fact brings no threats to any fundamental laws at all.
Maybe half a century ago, we reacquainted condensed matter and complex system. And now, let’s rediscover fundamental theory as well.