This is the frontier of knowledge. By definition, things that theoretical physicists themselves barely understand. For instance, this physicist reportedly "Dis

This is the frontier of knowledge. By definition, things that theoretical physicists themselves barely understand. For instance, this physicist reportedly "Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox". If true (I presume it is), this implies that other physicists before her didn't understand the black hole paradox all that well! It also implies that you'll never get a crystal clear understanding of it from reading popular science.