In message , Starblade
Darksquall writes

[...]

This doesn't make any sense to me at all. And I'm not stupid or
anything. I don't see why they found it necessary to do these things.
Maybe either I need to be educated more, or their theory needs some
tweaking.

"either" ... "or". That's two hypotheses.

Fermi problem for the reader: calculate their relative probabilities.

--
Richard Herring