I take it you've never had the pleasure of grading lab reports for the simplest experiments by undergrads?
(The little wet-behind-the ears dears manage to write up six kinds of impossible things just to look at the arithmetic, never mind actual reality. Without batting an eyelid.)
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.
(The little wet-behind-the ears dears manage to write up six kinds of impossible things just to look at the arithmetic, never mind actual reality. Without batting an eyelid.)