When I use the word “esoteric”, I mean it at an absolutely hyperbolic level. Like exploring new-but-basically-useless axiom spaces, and creating concepts for which there exists no clean metaphor in time-space - like quantum mechanics on steroids. And then creating multiplicatively more complex concepts by combining those concepts together.

There’s no way to “ELI5” this type of complexity. I’m talking about concepts exponentially more esoteric than quantum mechanics, and even within quantum mechanics there is nothing to ELI5 for a concept like “spin”. The best you can do is say that it’s a property of a particle. But imagine the words “property” and “particle” are also completely meaningless to you because they’re built on even more layers of conceptual mathematical abstraction.