Condensed matter physics is full of exciting revolutionary ideas that are being confirmed by experiment. So-called "fundamental" physics - the search for fundamental new laws - is not. Why not? Sabine Hossenfelder has a new article on that: (1/n)https://iai.tv/articles/why-physics-has-made-no-progress-in-50-years-auid-1292 …
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just because something is useful and affects our everyday life doesn't mean that it's more fundamental
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Maybe it's linguistics, I am just questioning "fundamental" being firmly pinned to the study of the most elementary constituents of matter known to date. Surely, it is important, but quarks and gluons will not help me solve problems about topological spin current, will they?
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> And so physics is fundamental to the extent that it has the resources to provide a maximal class of explanations. https://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Ney_Politics_of_Fundamental.pdf …
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