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Looking in to theoretical physics and expecting any practical application to come from it is a lot like buying lottery tickets and expecting to win.. It takes no prior qualifications to become knowledgeable in theoretical physics, but it's not a harness-able trade skill either. If you show an interest in it and have a keen inventive mind, you can become good at it, but your chance of ever having a use for the knowledge other than something cool to tell people at parties is about as good as it is for winning the lottery.

Einstein was a clerk at a patent office before he published the theory of relativity; most of the great experiments conducted in the late 19th and early 20th century which lead to our modern understanding of physics were conducted at home with crude materials. Some of those people who may have been thought of as childish quacks conducting quackery in their shed at odd hours went on to have their work ultimately contribute to the creation of things like the atomic bomb.

I'd ask you to show a little respect and keep that in mind the next time you look at these topics and think they are somehow foolish or beneath you.