It seems a fundamental nature of the universe that there is a tension between continuum and discrete. You see it everywhere: Wave vs particle, gradual heating

It seems a fundamental nature of the universe that there is a tension between continuum and discrete. You see it everywhere: Wave vs particle, gradual heating vs phase change, but also soup with little chunks of meat (themselves smaller continuum), gas clouds coalescing into planets. It goes on and on. In this case model was built for the continuum and in came a big discrete shock. Something it wasn't built for. Shocks require a different modality of thought. More reasoning, logic-y than regression.