Pat was feeling incommensurable so Ben melts his face off explaining the theory of Paradigm Shift. Identified by American physicist, philosopher, and nerd Thomas Kuhn, Paradigm Shift is a groundbreaking concept in the philosophy of science that itself caused a paradigm shift in our own understanding of how science as a human institution is practiced. Every once in a while, some big swinging dick comes in and fucks science up, only to disrupt our old conceptual scheme and initiate a new one.