It's presented as if it's a new discovery. If someone's interested in Physics, they should study Physics. It doesn't help much for one to jump right in the middle of a subject and act like they know what they're talking about. Which is exactly what linking to this scientific paper on HN encourages. In this case, anyone who could understand the paper would very likely have encountered the information already.
I've seen too many programmers act as if there's nothing they don't know or can't understand after a weekend's worth of study. That kind of arrogance is what separates scientists from pragmatists. It leads to situations like this:
