You imply that physicists are afraid of extending their knowledge, but this is literally the physicist's goal in life. If you've discovered a mechanism that vio

You imply that physicists are afraid of extending their knowledge, but this is literally the physicist's goal in life. If you've discovered a mechanism that violates an established law of physics, a Nobel Prize is probably in your future. On the other hand, every time I turn around there's a new crackpot trying to crowdfund research into perpetual motion machines and the like. It's possible that the VCs you've approached are doing a poor job of explaining your product to the physicists they've consulted, who then dismiss it out of hand. If you have working physical prototypes, and not merely an idea that you believe will work, and you're willing to let people 'get hands-on' to test them, and they're not prohibitively expensive for the performance increases they lead to, the tech community should be very interested indeed. Perhaps focusing on finding credentialed people to independently confirm that your process works first rather than approaching VCs would be something to try.