What if Elon Musk had never gone to college?

A significant point about Elon Musk is that not only is he very well educated -- Jeff Bezos also is extremely well educated, with degrees in compsci and electrical engineering, from Princeton -- but, perhaps more than any other top billionaire, Elon Musk actually has a very scholarly bent. He might have been just as happy, or happier, as a Nobel Prize winning physicist than as the world's richest man. And, I think that this is a factor somewhat influencing his business career. So, let's consider the influence that this orientation to the field of Physics might have had on him, and, on the world, by this stage. Suppose he never studies physics formally. What do physicists do, exactly, that might be considered somewhat different from other fields? First of all, physicists do presume to have comprehensive "laws" that model the entire universe. This wasn't always the case, but, dates from Newton's Principia (1687), which does presume to offer mathematical laws of truly universal application, and seems to work pretty well, most of the time, anyway. Since then, physicists have always presumed a similar level of omniscience regarding all of their claims. Physicists are never "wrong" about anything, they're "giants" on whose shoulders further knowledge must be built. Put simply, physicists have a God Complex, in psychoanalytical terms. While Elon Musk has claimed he has Asperger's Syndrome, since he has none of the symptoms, I don't actually think he does. What he does seem to have, as most physicists have, is a God Complex. This is consistent with the popular belief and assertion that Elon Musk has "changed the world". Since we've had liquid fueled rockets and electric cars for generations before Musk was even born, I'm not really sure that he has. This is also consistent with his consistent claim to be able to colonize Mars. Something, with all his money, he can't possibly do, with anything remotely resembling the technologies he has developed, or is developing. Actually, both Jeff Bezos, with Amazon, and Bill Gates, with Windows, probably have changed the world quite a bit more than Elon Musk is ever likely to do. So arguably, Musk's physics training has made him somewhat grandiose and delusional, as physicists tend to be. Possibly, he might have done more useful and important things, if he'd never studied physics at all, and hadn't gone to college. On the other hand, I think it is significant that Elon Musk has quite consistently avoided all business activity related to nuclear power, in any form at all. Both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are becoming progressively more heavily invested in fusion power research, while Elon Musk has consistently rejected all aspects of it. I think, at least in terms of all conventional approaches, Musk is actually quite right about this, and Gates and Bezos are quite wrong. None of the current approaches to nuclear fusion seem to be much more than make-work projects for physicists and engineers. They don't work, and can't work. Not very well, anyway. And, Musk has the training and analytical skills to see this. So, if Musk hadn't studied Physics at college, he might be sucked into the bottomless vortex of funding useless nuclear fusion projects, just like his super-billionaire colleagues have been.