Those who are not used to the terminology of physics or math would not be able to follow a paper no matter whether it was stuffed with the Greek alphabet or nic

Those who are not used to the terminology of physics or math would not be able to follow a paper no matter whether it was stuffed with the Greek alphabet or nice descriptive names. They'd be baffled by the formulae and concepts and lack the understanding needed to see the trees through the forest even if it were written like prose, maybe even more so as a formula at least gives some idea of what goes in and what comes out, what belongs together and in what order things are to be seen by virtue of some easily understandable symbols. While it is a fact that some people - often those who lack self-confidence - revel in being obtuse to increase the appearance of them being the guardians of some semi-magical 'Knowledge' this is not the reason why STEM-fields tend to gravitate to their own 'secret languages'. This starts in school where children learn that 1 + 1 = 2 instead of take the abstract number one, add another abstract number one and you now have the abstract number two.