Take yer pick:
A. This new technology is a complete game-changer, a Great Leap Forward (so to speak). Independent testing will verify this.
B. This new technology is not a game-changer. The people behind it missed something. So their experiments are corrupted. Independent testing will catch the mistake.
C. This is a pump-and-dump scheme. Form a company. Sell shares. Company eventually collapses, but not before the founders cash out.
I’ll go with “B”, for now.
Side story: A couple of years ago I read about two university researchers (I forgot where) who tried to make a pulse of light go faster than the speed of light.
That would violate Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. Nevertheless, it important that they tried. Science advances when accepted theories are challenged. (Got that, Al Gore?)
Big excitement! The researchers made a pulse go faster than the speed of light. But then peer review found that the researchers made an innocent measuring error. Einstein’s work still holds.
“Everything is impossible until somebody does it.” - Robert Heinlein...............