>>12215456It's the best hedge if the body of tried and true physics was fundamentally flawed
It's like how in a portfolio you might invest 1% in gold. It's extremely rare for gold to skyrocket, but in the extremely rare event that everything else goes down, you can make a shitload in gold to compensate despite putting so little into it.
If PM was possible you probably wouldn't need a super genius to waste his time, just a lot of idiots trying will do. You might as well let them because they can't amount to anything else anyway.
Same with reactionless drives. If they work, no one knows how they would work right now. So why put an educated scientist on the job?
