Since there is <50% chance that this will pan out, then you would be making a good bet. Also, 99% of startups fail from inception, so according to your risk-rew

Since there is <50% chance that this will pan out, then you would be making a good bet. Also, 99% of startups fail from inception, so according to your risk-reward tolerance you'd want to avoid investing your time or money in early stage startups as well. Scientific advances are made when someone accomplishes what others thought was impossible. I haven't seen anything in the physics to indicate that you'd be breaking (known) laws of physics. It seems that this article was written for people such as yourself.