That doesn’t have to be the case. It could be we come to realize that reality isn’t one geometry but many and they are just 2 of n geometries which fit together. That doesn’t seem to make sense, but that’s just the idea of cohomology from what I understand, wrongly probably.

That seems more likely than the thing that happened last time repeating itself. Basically we just need Grothendieck’s ideas to percolate to the physics people.

Or not.