  We propose an alternative paradigm to the conjectured Miransky scaling
potentially underlying the physics describing the transition from the
conformally broken to the conformally restored phase when tuning certain
parameters such as the number of flavors in gauge theories. According to the
new paradigm the physical scale and henceforth also the massive spectrum of the
theory jump at the lower boundary of the conformal window. In particular we
propose that a theory can suddenly jump from a Quantum Chromodynamics type
spectrum, at the lower boundary of the conformal window, to a conformal one
without particle interpretation. The jumping scenario, therefore, does not
support a near-conformal dynamics of walking type. We will also discuss the
impact of jumping dynamics on the construction of models of dynamical
electroweak symmetry breaking.
