Many scientists passionately feel "Darwin's Origin of the Species" was perhaps an even greater quantum jump. Indeed, we went from a jumble of absurdly superstitious oversimplifications, to an awesome (and evidence supported!) vision of not only life ON Earth, but also the life OF the Earth. It opened thousands of doors and answered thousands of questions and it still is arguably the bedrock paradigm of Earth existence. Once again the card table was kicked over and science left the room . . . for truth.
May we look at another example from the arts. Musicologists sometimes play the game of classifying different musical periods, from the Renaissance, to Baroque, to Classical, to Romantic, and to Modern. Everyone knows these classifications overlap and are somewhat arbitrary, but if we use them, then we should look at Beethoven, because Beethoven basically single-handedly evolved classical music from classical forms (as he was taught -- and well taught) to romantic forms. By the time you get to his 9th Symphony and the sublime Ode to Joy, the world of Romantic musical forms was heaven bound.
In conclusion, a less dramatic "revolution" in mathematics took place in the 17th Century when Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat (as in "Fermat's Last Theorem -- now recently proved), created coordinate geometry with the famous orthogonal axes and quadrants (or octants). The genius of this construction is that it interfaces geometry with algebra, which was infinitely liberating to mathematics, since suddenly mathematics was no longer tethered to three dimensions. So called n-space is a coordinate system with MORE than three dimensions (which goes with equations with more than 3 variables) which, of course, is impossible to visualize in your mind -- even though Einstein used a 4 dimensional system, where the 4th variable was time. However, after the coordinate system discovery (creation?), algebra could go limitlessly into n-space with, say 7 variables and 7 equations (a square matrix), or 12 variables with 10 dimensions. Also the equations didn't have to be "linear" e.g., a straight line or rectilinear constructions, and this opened up nonlinear n by m systems which only the most advanced computer programs can solve).
The point, again, is that this was a quantum jump change into "newness" and bye, bye traditional card table.
Perhaps these above supremely interesting examples of human quantum jumps (in physics, math, and music -- of course, there's many more), sharpens the focus of where human social evolution has taken us, since Einstein didn't "give up" when he found himself trapped in the common sense box of dead end physics, and neither should we.
However, it can't be said strongly enough that all the above examples didn't involve "compromise" or "adjustments" of their various status quos. In every case, what happened is that human intelligence, courage, and determination rose to the challenge of RADICAL CHANGE and to repeat the analogy, radical change is never "reshuffling the deck"; it's kicking over the card table and leaving the room. Or said differently, it quantum jumps out of the traditional common sense box into what in effect is a different dimension. Indeed, that's an excellent way to say it: what we're talking about is "dimensional change", and dimensional change is about 17 light years beyond Washington's game of marbles -- EVEN AT ITS BEST.
From an evolutionary perspective, it can be argued that our species is now at a social/biological "cusp", and if we don't quantum jump into dimensional change IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE, the Beast will not only inevitably destroy human Civilization, but will also destroy countless species (including, of course, us!).
Billionaire religious fanatics IN ALL COUNTRIES are the ultimate challenge of humanity, combined with the lunatic right wing fringe IN ALL COUNTRIES, which are the fascist "police force" of our mutilated planet's Dictatorships of the Rich (oligarchies).
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