Again, take it up with Tyson and others with doctoral-level credentials who've made a career out of explaining these subjects to the unwashed laity. I'm not one of those people. Nobody posting on Hacker News is, as far as can be discerned.
If you and others in the thread feel that these popular authorities are spreading misinformation or using inappropriate analogies, doesn't it behoove you to raise an objection with them directly? Or perhaps with the appropriate faculty committees at their institutions?
> If you and others in the thread feel that these popular authorities are spreading misinformation or using inappropriate analogies, doesn't it behoove you to raise an objection with them directly?
If they want to make money by getting "the unwashed laity" to buy their books, why should I stop them? I simply don't buy them myself. If other people want to get told comforting nonsense, that's their problem. Caveat lector.
> Or perhaps with the appropriate faculty committees at their institutions?
Which would be pointless and absurd, since, as I have already said, the claims in question are not being made in textbooks and peer-reviewed papers.
So you are completely incorrect insofar as what you are saying is physically nonsense.