[dang]

Thanks! I appreciate the detailed and super interesting explanation.

I may be wrong, but my sense is that the authors confused things a bit for the general internet reader by (let's say) not entirely resisting the troll potential here.

[thisrod]

> not entirely resisting the troll potential here

Entirely possible. The sad thing is, when I've seen physicists take the "no such thing as bad publicity" approach, it's worked. University presidents watch the news too.