For me, the "discovery" of memristors felt strangely like predicting a fundamental particle based on known symmetries, where one of these symmetry slots has not

For me, the "discovery" of memristors felt strangely like predicting a fundamental particle based on known symmetries, where one of these symmetry slots has not yet been observed. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_Way_(physics) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_Way_(physics) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor