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The problem here is that you are ignorant and arrogant. You assume that
1. Stuff you thought up yourself with no logical reason behind it has to be correct, even though this means that
2. Engineers and tyre companies who have spent years working on this have to be wrong. In fact, they have to be idiots. Because if the steel drum tests and other techniques they have evolved don't work then this would show in real world test rides - especially those using power taps. (Ok: you probably don't know what a power tap is. Trust me, it's useful and relevant.)
3. In fact, you're assuming that because it disagrees with your own personal theory, modern physics' understanding of materials science is wrong!
4. According to your "theory" the wrong guy just won the Paris Roubaix! It was won on a cyclocross bike chosen for its ability to run wider rubber than a normal racing bike at the cost of normally critical qualities like aerodynamics and twitch steering for pack position.
5. According to your theory that high pressure is faster, all professional cyclocross riders - who spend $200 a tyre on tubeless rubber so that they can reduce pressure as much as possible without pinch-flatting are wrong. So are MTBers who use tubeless systems for the same reason. When you're asked about this you're too chicken to answer.
This goes beyond mere lack of knowledge and intelligence into deep "WTF is wrong with this guy???" Seriously, how can you believe that all these people with Phds and decades of experience racing and managing race teams can be wrong and you right? And then how do you explain that what they do works in reality, where as what you think they should do fails?
What impresses me most is that you haven't been able to give a single
reason for your beliefs - even a perpetual motion machine addict, flat earther or moonshot denier can manage better than that.