Those who worked with what was alive in an infinity of yesterdays complained that even though they had no good explanation of why punctuated-equilibrium theory worked, you couldn't argue with the evidence in the rocks, maths or no maths.
Some traders looked for that calculated short in silver through the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) yesterday and were successful on it, and some will probably short versus yesterdays high or off of this up open for some follow-through to the downside.