Sometimes the most important thing , like a dinosaur in the toilet, slips from the view.
So happened to WD in the post of the discovery of the new state of matter.
The solid electron state of matter on quantum basis seems to be the famous breach or bridge between the world of Quantum Mechanics micro to the world of normal “classic” macro physics. The bridge, which was searched and missed for decades.
Like in the famous explanatory drawing ( not to be bragged about from the art point, but very apt) of the Richard Penrose book on fashion, faith and fantasy in physics, a mermaid, half of the body -tail in “water” and the upper half on the solid rock, with an invisible, unbreachable divide between the two worlds.
The new solid state of matter, discovered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, bridges this divide.
Certainly, if this is true as it seems certain, the physics has to change.
Now , we can think that the Quantum mechanics has been “normalized” and Albert Einstein has been finally vindicated in his doubts around the Copenhagen Consensus end of the road physics, or we can think that “classic” , “normal” physics has been definitely “quantized”.
From this point of view, so classic in the family disputes, the peace is established and each member gets some confirmation.
Unfortunately , the incommensurability of theories, as WD and the father of them, Paul Feyerabend, point to a definite divergence. The situation is not that parties involved in a dispute all get some satisfaction, but this moment, now looked as the bridge between worlds, is the beginning of the new physics, a new theory, which is not, as WD wrote, a patchwork of old rugs. Yet to be established and so become the new leading paradigm.
These are exciting times for the whole new generation of scientists.
Chasing the White rabbit!
Witchdoctor