I mean I'm always happy to help someone have another sleepless night, but to be honest with you I kind of do dismiss it as a coincidence. It looks neat for sure, the parallels are undeniable and interesting, but I don't really attribute any deeper meaning to it because I'm used to seeing similarly interesting although less sharply poignant things in my work.
I have to do a lot of analysis that typically requires a visualization exercise to make the information easier to parse - its just rows and rows of spreadsheet cells otherwise - and periodically I will produce an image that is a startling parallel to real life in one way or another. It ranges from "haha that blob looks kind of like a duck" to "how did we accidentally paint a sunset with a stress profile". Its really interesting to me how things like this just appear when working with stresses and such but I don't really attribute any deeper meaning to it because although the images are 'real' in that they are based on information that carries specific and important meaning, they aren't 'real' in the sense that they exist. They're just an abstraction that we create to help us understand and work with information that is otherwise too complex to use. As much as I liked seeing my sunset girder, I could have easily tweaked a few things in the visualizer to make it appear completely boring while still communicating exactly the same information.
Now, this might not be an abstraction in the same way I'm used to, and it could be equivalent to a polaroid of the particles compared to what I do. It took me three readthroughs of the article to even nail down the fact that the image is based on actual information rather than just being a conceptual proof so I'm absolutely not gonna claim I have it all figured out. But that's my read on what's going on here, and I'm just kind of waiting it out to see what comes next. My pop sci snark has more to do with the fact that there are some people who seem to just wait in the bushes for the chance to make a discovery all about spirit energy and its frustrating when that overshadows the very hard work people did to produce this information.