Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments?

• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Read it for real, try it out. Then you’ll know.

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  • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have, I studied these ideas at university. I’m just curious what makes these thought experiments harder than e.g. the double slit experiment, Plato’s cave analogy or Rawls’ veil of ignorance?

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    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I studied these ideas at university

      I have learned the stuff at university, too. But what they gave us there was good teaching, after several decades of practising their teaching.

      When I read the original papers, much later, they were quite a bit harder. Especially some of the thought experiments.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe not harder than those, but they are amazing, because the conclusions from them actually work.
      There are thought experiments that are unsolvable paradoxes, but these are cool exactly because they are not.
      So I’d say Einsteins are among the coolest.
      Also double slit experiment is not so much a thought experiment as it is a phenomenon that is hard to explain.

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      • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Also double slit experiment is not so much a thought experiment as it’s an experimental phenomenon that is hard to explain. Also Einsteins thought experiments are actual science, based on reality with actual results…

        The double slit experiment was first invented as a thought experiment, and later was built as an actual experiment. It’s the same with relativity, first it was thought up, now it’s experimentally verified. So the examples from relativity you bring up are also more experimental phenomena than a thought experiments at this point.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The numbers make my brain smoke.

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