I found the concept pretty goofy when I was reading it but then I had to stop and remind myself that not only do I know shockingly little about the universe, our greatest experts do, too.
Whatever fantastical concept we can imagine likely exists in some iteration out there.
I liked the concept, but the execution was ... lacking. Some aspects like language (hopefully not spoiling too much) seemed to me treated very naively.
I do agree on that, I wasn't a huge fan of the storytelling which did a lot of belabored hand-holding and did indeed feel like an amateur who did just enough research to treat the reader like a naive student.
That's a hard trick to pull, though. How do you tell an expert's tale without a) getting too technical for most or b) getting to ELI5 for the few?
Whatever fantastical concept we can imagine likely exists in some iteration out there.