I love reading about quantum mechanics at all different levels, and have read and appreciated articles well beyond what I could properly comprehend in fullness; but man was this article all over the place.

I've never seen an author use metaphors or similies so poorly before. To draw parallels between something hard to grasp and something made up and vaguely defined in an effort to explain the former is.. ill advised at best. Then there's the fact that the author spends forever to explain basic chemistry then jumps into color charge in such a way that anyone not already intimately familiar with at least the terminology of quantum physics would never be able to understand, then the author jumps from topic to topic seemingly in a race to drop references to as many different concepts as possible without actually explaining any of them, almost like a student writing an essay then going back and swapping words with a thesaurus to seem better informed.

Even the science aside, the writing itself is rather atrocious. The author "answers" mysteries he never even asked or previously posed, and expects readers to already know what he's trying to say so he can refer to that in his explanations of why he said it.

Then the author has a tendency to jump from field to field, converting apples into oranges with the help of a long-dead scientist only so he can add them together in the most basic way and then convert them back to apples again. But he got to prove that he knows of Avagdro, so obviously there's that.

Usually Nautilus articles are written much better than this. If you value your sanity or actually care to understand the topic discussed, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.