Altho, this does not attempt to explain our origin, and the description should read, "Humanity learns the basics of light."

As rad as our universe is, all the ways we come up with to understand it are even radder.

Well he is an extremely sharp journalist. The editing is not really what matters....it's that his explanations are clear and he has that oh-so-enjoyable teaspoon of snark.

They do. It's sort of sad how guys like Sagan and even Gould got a lot of shit in their respective field for writing for the general populace as opposed to other scientists. Perhaps if that didn't happen, more people would step up to the plate.

OTOH, I think most of the problem is that, as good as you can be, if you're talking about science most people are just going to say tl;dr.