Comment Re:That kind of thing has been done actually (Score 2) 588
I think Feynman's real talent, the talent shared by many of the physicists I know who make real fundamental breakthroughs, is the ability to _understand_ physical problems in terms that even a 12 year old could understand. That is to say, to pare away the unnecessary complexities and reduce the problem to the simplest form that encapsulates the essence of the question. Once you can do that, you can explain what's happening in terms even a 12 year old can understand, because that's how you understood it in the first place.