I really like this take, but on a weird philosophical way I gotta disagree. The surface of the earth has by a long shot the most difficult physics in the universe we know about.

Try to imagine a model that predicts the things going on there.

At least the neutron star probably has some scale at which it starts to looks homogeneous.

This, btw, is a pretty good marketing strategy for condensed matter physics (and indeed, biology and chemistry [1]):

"The most interesting physics in the universe takes place on the surface of earth."

[1] Biology and Chemistry are literally subdisciplines of physics so large we call them different names. And they're subdisciplines which are only so large because the surface the earth exists. Without the surface of the earth as part of the universe, as far as we know biology wouldn't exist, and chemistry would probably still be nothing more than a medium-sized subdiscipline of physics.