Similarly metals undergo collective behavior and interactions that are not reducible to the behavior of an individual atom within that metal, and it has been argued that the laws which describe this collective behavior are no less fundamental than the laws that describe the atoms themselves.
Similarly metals undergo collective behavior and interactions. These collective behavior are not reducible to the behavior of an individual atom within that metal. Interactions are not reducible to the behavior of an individual atom within that metal. The laws are no less fundamental than the laws. This was what it has been argued. These laws describe the atoms themselves. These laws describe this collective behavior.