geoffkait-
“If I could explain it to the average dude they wouldn’t have given me the Nobel prize.”
Oddly enough, no Nobel Prize winner ever said that.
On the other hand Richard Feynman, who really did win a Nobel Prize, actually did say, "If you can't explain something in simple terms you don't understand it." https://kottke.org/17/06/if-you-cant-explain-something-in-simple-terms-you-dont-understand-it