It could be a group project. Making sense of a crackpot theory, finding out if there's something testable in it, possibly testing it, and writing it all up. I'm

It could be a group project. Making sense of a crackpot theory, finding out if there's something testable in it, possibly testing it, and writing it all up. I'm only half-kidding. It would be more interesting and perhaps more socially valuable than repeating the same experiments in physics lab that the last 50 semesters did.