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It will take time to read your links.
"Poetic", in my usage, means it sounds nice, but it's meaning isn't always clear. The terms used are often not precise, or even well-defined. Like "timeless"...it can either mean 'without time' (in which case nothing is happening because there is no time), or 'infinite in time' (without end). When speaking science, part of the difficulty the public/lay-people have is that the terms are precise, and often not known to them. An easy example is that people will say "I have a theory". But scientifically, they usually don't. They have a conjecture. A theory is the strongest statement you can make in science, so when people say -for example- "evolution is just a theory", they -unknowingly- are saying evolution is the strongest statement that can be made in science with the strongest evidence. If I say "bremstrahlung", any physicist will know instantly. Most laypeople won't (unless they happen to speak German, and then they might have a clue).
Which is why it is difficult to find a scientist who can write for the masses. Neil DeGrasse-Tyson is an excellent communicator, as was his mentor Carl Sagan. You get a lot of scientists up to speak, and they will often lose the audience because they can't make it understandable to someone not in their field. Sagan and Tyson are somewhat poetic (Sagan, especially), but they still use sufficiently precise terminology to be accurate and still be understandable.
