

Those children grow up to be the ones writing policy. They are people too, don’t forget that you were also once a child.
The “stupidest shit” that is said is often due to them being isolated and in a social bubble where those beliefs are the norm. Those “Internet arguments” may be the only exposure to ideas outside and social pushback outside said bubble.
Lack of evidence of outcome is not evidence of outcome.
If you’re getting heated you’re doing it wrong.
The payoff isn’t to convince the other person one way or another, it’s to provide others reading the discussion alternative viewpoints. In this case pushing back against the idea that children’s thoughts, feelings and questions should be ignored.
All of academia has a replication crisis at the moment however this is less theoretical than most and easily passes the sniff test.
You know how bismuth crystals have all sorts of different colors? It’s essentially growing a “bismuth crystals” on top of a cmos camera, except the “bismuth crystal” is much more random and the specific wavelength of light it lets through is dependent on some physics fuckery.
Will it ever be commercially produced? I doubt it, but hope I’m wrong:
I however do see potential uses for a cheap handheld machine that can do a quick and dirty material composition check. Contaminant tester (drugs, assembly lines, chemical stocks, etc.), hobbyist labs, chemical reaction monitor, etc.