are you really saying that lottery tickets are a wise investment? I invoke the mystical powers of common sense.
The odds of winning the last Mega Millions drawing was 1 in 170M. How much would you have to "invest" in order to make the odds more in your favor?
In actuality, the biggest barrier to understanding modern physics is the math. The math models are what generate the "weirdness". Trying to use english to describe what the math models are telling us is what generates the "weirdness".
But if you suspend disbelief and go where the math takes you, useful things can be done, like nuclear power, solid state physics, etc.