You shouldn't think of them as earth-shattering announcements. Think of these articles as the highlights reel of the 10-year progress report in some area of phy

You shouldn't think of them as earth-shattering announcements. Think of these articles as the highlights reel of the 10-year progress report in some area of physics/math. Most of these are not ideas that will have any revolutionary impact over the next couple of years. But, over the next decade, we expect these ideas to lead to some very fruitful insights. This is one of the hardest parts of communicating research to the layperson -- it can often come across as deceptively simple. Ten minutes of simplified communication summarizes ten years of blood, sweat and tears by dozens of people. EDIT: I'm pretty optimistic about the Bootstrap idea in particular; I'm not trying to downplay its importance. But I wanted to convey that the way it'll end up helping might be very different from the leaps anticipated in the article, as it would be for any such article on any area of research.