This is why I love statistics. You can dabble with integrals and functions and all the fancy math tools and still end up with something useful to say about the real world.
Like, the E8 Lie Group probably contains the secret to manmade wormholes, faster-than-light travel, and manipulating higher dimensional space, but we won't know it for hundreds of years. (or at least until we invent AGI). Something like that.