If it makes you feel better, I studied physics (although only at the undergraduate level) and I still can’t really follow articles like this. If you really want to understand this stuff you basically have to dedicate your life to it, genius or not.
Sean Carrol's Mindscape podcast does a pretty good job explaining things to where an average Hacker News reader would understand things. Highest recommendation. He had someone on recently talking about this paradox, the CFT-ADST correspondance and holographic theory and it was reasonably understandable.
Thanks for the recommendation. We used his textbook in my relativity class and he's definitely a good teacher.