Source in case anyone else is curious:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/s/gns97o8Epu

If you need to contact a college, odds are your understanding of the material is going to be basic, so there's a good chance your ideas are going to be at least a bit naive or underdeveloped.

You need to learn about the topic so you can develop your hypothesis (theories involve evidence) into something useful or interesting.

You also need to learn about the competing ideas as well as the language used to describe them. People who throw jargon around aren't just doing it to sound smart (well ok, some do that) but are using words that were made up to capture more complex or specific ideas than the usual day to day language. Talking the talk isn't about creating exclusivity but demonstrating understanding.

Though it does suck if you do understand the concepts but just use different language to talk about them (like how calculus looks pretty different because it was invented twice simultaneously by two different people who weren't working together, so we now have both f'(x) and dx/dy as notation to express a derivative of a function).