Hey, maybe in this world you're describing, it could be true. It's up to the author to decide how believable his exposition is.
That does sound like the exposition in Avatar, though.
so I said formula needs to be well executed for it to work and you essentially said if the author executes it well, it could work?
Yep.
It's 9 o'clock at night, I'm going on like 5 hours of sleep, I spent all day dealing with pains in the ***, struggled and stressed out to get enough money for rent and had to sit through a mind numbing 2 hour meeting, so my mind isn't 100% at this exact moment.