Perhaps our model of a world is missing a few dimensions which makes it hard to understand what is going on.
Related: https://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/07/02/flatland-und...
String theory posits 10+ dimensions but they would be extremely tiny (compactified is the term) and cyclic so all objects would travel through them in a modular way. Like, if you walked to the end of your bedroom, you'd have gone through these dimensions something like 10^100 times again and again like a clock hand going around.
But experiments with gravity and light supposedly show no loss of energy or speed and other metrics, that would indicate some other hidden dimensions where energy could be absorbed/trapped.
It's possible these other dimensions have extremely high vacuum states so they repel any incoming energy packets..but who really knows?
In any case, we know plenty enough to start crafting new combinations of atoms to create room temperature superconductors. Fabrication techniques have to get better. We should be testing 10000000 compounds every day. If we had room temperature superconductors we could have CPUs, GPUs, and other such transistor based technology running at 1000s of GHz. The only reason we can't do that now is because of the heat given off by the resistance of the materials we are currently using to build these circuits!
Overclocking culture used to put liquid nitrogen on Pentium 4s and get em up to 10+GHz. Fun but not sustainable. Just evidence that the thermal envelope is the true problem for current single core clock speeds.
A room temperature superconductor would change computing forever. It is in my opinion, the thing we should be focusing all our material science and physics efforts on. Computers that are 1000s of times faster would allow us to take machine learning, and by extension, artificial intelligence, to a new frontier.
I enjoyed the reading, it is well written. Like you, I think there is a bit too much speculation to consider it an article suitable for a "scientifically curious audience". From my point of view the parallels and the "connections" between phylogeny, elements, matter and physics make it very little pseudo-scientific and too metaphysical.