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A thought experiment , sometimes called a gedankenexperiment in German, is a proposal for an experiment that would test or illuminate a hypothesis or theory. Given the structure of the proposed ex...
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The most commonly accepted is that it is a contracted form of "Gott damm en experiment," which Icelandic fizikists used to shout when trying to perform experiments which were too difficult to do in practice, especially when "massless" pulleys fell on their toes and hurt them.
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Thought experiment. An experiment that is run in the mind. AlbertEinstein was very good at this sort of thing. ... EditText of this page (last edited October 12, 2009); FindPage by searching (or browse LikePages or take a VisualTour);
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Often a real experiment that is the analogue of a thought experiment is impossible for physical, technological, or financial reasons; but this needn't be a defining condition of thought experiments.
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In physics, the term "gedanken experiment" is used to refer to an experiment that is impractical to carry out, but useful to consider because it can be reasoned about theoretically.
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