Comment by ordu
> you should just ignore it.
I believe we shouldn't ignore it. I know about physics from pop-science mostly, so I have limited choices, either "space stretching", or (if I just ignore pop-science) "I have no clue what is happening", or I should stop doing all I'm doing now and dig into physics textbooks, to get real understanding. The last option is not really tempting, I have better ways to spend my free time, the second option doesn't seem constructive at all, so the only viable option is to not ignore vague pop-science description.
> I believe we shouldn't ignore it.
To be more precisely, you should ignore it if you want to actually understand the science. Pop science presentations will not help you understand the science. That's not what they're for. Being as charitable as possible (i.e., ignoring the obvious money-making and eyeball-capturing motives), pop science is for getting people interested in a science topic--so that at least some of them will be motivated to learn more about it, from sources like textbooks or peer-reviewed papers or class lecture notes and other teaching materials (many universities now have those available online for free) which can help you actually understand the science.
> the only viable option is to not ignore vague pop-science description.
As long as you are ok with not understanding the actual science. Nature doesn't care how much time and effort it takes to actually understand something in science. So it is no argument at all to say that you have better ways to spend your time, if you actually want to understand the science. The time required to do that is not dictated by your convenience.