I think if you're not into sci fi, you've discovered what most call the distinction between hard and soft sci fi. Soft sci fi is the usual boring eternal "human condition" story thats been told a million times before, but maybe if I put space ships in as my gimmick I can sell more copies. Hard sci fi is what if this really thought provoking component datasheet or speculative theoretical physics paper were true, maybe I could sell more copies if I put some humans into the story as filler for my gimmick. I'm personally pretty bored with human condition stories; I've read them all or lived thru the experience myself over the decades, but sci fi still delights me with glorious creativity even if the bolted on characters are sometimes one dimensional cardboard cutouts.
The system you suggest of a human story teller deferring to the scientists is usually screwed up by one side or the other; when it isn't, its noteworthy. One example of an English Lit major not screwing up the science would be KSR's famous Mars Trilogy from around the turn of the century. That's a really good trilogy! Proving that at least theoretically your system is possible, having been successfully implemented at least once historically.