“We therefore appoint the most possible mechanism to the superconducting vortices. The low-field absorption of microwave power with the assistance of dc magnetic field points to the small superconducting gap, and the relevant metastable excited states emerge to be vortices.”

It remains to be seen if this is a misunderstood experiment or a new discovery. Regardless, this is science operating as it should with people sharing the data that they have. But no need for the general public to speculate aimlessly.