Agreed. I sometimes have to chuckle/feel sad for Theoretical
   Physics. I enjoy the flights of fancy and it's awesome when they
   seem to get something right... yet they're so strongly dependent
   upon sameness; numbers always working, electrons _must_ be
   treated as spherical, identical; in fact, the whole
   conceptualization of the particle models _need_ them to be
   "perfect spheres"... for the math to work... it's actually
   amazing some of it works at all!

   Yet, I believe they're working with similarity; a "close enough"
   in forms that fit together like keys and locks that are "close
   enough"; but I think that's because we're working with, what
   will turn out to be, very "sloppy" similarities. That is to say,
   when our abilities to peer deeper still improve, they'll be
   distinctions.

   Come to think of it... since no two electrons (or those things
   in the electron family - is it hadrons or fermions? I forget) -
   can occupy the same spacetime; at best being "superimposed"
   (which SHOULDN'T be as spooky as they make it out to be, but
   whatever.. it funds them) - they *are* distinct and unique.

   They have to IGNORE TIME to make it work. Or they have to ignore
   LOCATION to make it work. Or they have to ignore SOMETHING to
   make it work.

   But... just because something works doesn't mean it's correct..
   just that it works.