It’s a family of North Sea words at various stages of commercialization/gentrification: koselig,gesellig,hygge,cosagach,cozy.

The essay seems to be predicated on the mistaken notion at the time that the electron has no mass (the proton had not been discovered yet). Of course today philosophers of physics might make similar arguments using gluons; see that other hot thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35432918

RIP M Poincare was a great man.

According to eternally recurring themes in myth-legend-history the next one in the sequence is: the engineer/developer/artist in the arena.

From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympians to the French & Russian revolutions.

“The ultimate structure of the myth, then, is that the three estates of Proto-Indo-European society were fused only after a war between the first two against the third...”

(The third being not those who engage in (corporate) warfare or (rhetorical) magic, but those who working with concrete stuff (modern day fertility cults))

From the wikipedia article on the aesir-vanir war.

For the decentralized subculture, perhaps “the persons above the arena”