With my lifelong SF and fantasy reader hat on, I say yes, I think so; with my professional scientist on, I add that the sensawunda inherent in the cooler edges of the purely rational aspects of the world we live in are sufficient to my finding this a thing worth doing with my life.

With my aspiring writer hat on, if it will balance atop the other two, I note that, while magic-as-science has been done well a few times, magic-as-science that feels the same sort of exciting and awe-inspiring as real cutting edge science is rare enough that I gave up and am closing on 70,000 words into doing it myself, though that particular project is back-burnered right now.