With all due respect, these papers are not written for the layman. They are written for the few thousand people who work in the field or near enough to understa

With all due respect, these papers are not written for the layman. They are written for the few thousand people who work in the field or near enough to understand this work. Single results in physics (and science) in general are almost never individually relevant to the public. The public should read either review or meta papers, or they should read the articles/books written by scientists for public consumption. As a physicist, I rarely upvote physics papers on HN, unless there is insightful commentary in the comments. This is not an insult to anyone who is not a scientist - just that jargon is necessary for rapid progress, and understanding jargon requires developing expertise by many years of work.