No elegant, continuum explanation for wall formation
Now, Multitudes of phases: magnets, superconductors, superfluids,
dozens of liquid crystals, spin glasses, quantum Hall states, early
universe vacuum states… (continuous broken symmetries)
 Rigid to deforming order parameter field
 Continuous deformations: Only crystals, quasicrystals form walls*
Why?
*Smectic A focal conics, Meissner effect