If that makes the show sound like a dinner-party conversation, it's a sprawling one, sometimes rambunctious, sometimes rarefied, engrossing but dragging on too long.
Free radicals may be created in a number of ways, including synthesis with very dilute or rarefied reagents, reactions at very low temperatures, or breakup of larger molecules.
Interestingly, the more rarefied the study such as higher forms of mathematics and quantum physics, the more likely is beauty found to be a reliable guide.