thought-experiment

So with all that said, let me leave you with a thought experiment I use to help keep my priorities in check.

Closed timelike curves would make such a program impossible, as a simple thought experiment reveals.

In fact, cosmological redshifts can happen even when there seems to be no relative motion at all, as the following thought experiment shows.

But the thing about this is that every once in a while we divers can run into trouble, so I'm going to do a little thought experiment here.

Ultimately, the thing that gives him that clue turns out to be his old faithful way of reasoning--the thought experiment.

The above is only a thought experiment. Just thinking about your day, what will the early morning be like?

A famous thought experiment asks what you would do with a terrorist who knew the location of a ticking nuclear bomb.

Put two or three ideas or items in a particle accelerator thought experiment.

We've attempted a thought experiment with tougher standards: predicting a future that's just around the corner.

The tool you and I would call was daydreaming, but he gets it called thought experiment because he is Einstein.

Then Heisenberg patiently, and perhaps a bit patronizingly, demonstrates to Popper the mistake in his thought experiment.

If the thought experiment above took only a few minutes, could you actually take an hour to slow down?

As a thought experiment, pick your favorite institution you believe is committed to open education.

We could name this test ? Thought Experiment " and assign to it half a day of time to be completed. "

To see what that could mean in your case, let's do a little thought experiment.

We've attempted a thought experiment with far tougher standards: predicting the future that's just around the corner.

The only thought experiment supporting this scenario is wishful thinking.

So, the first thing I'd like you to do is a little thought experiment.

It represents a thought experiment in API design unhindered by the complexities of implementation, trial usage or community feedback.

Vance Fried, of Oklahoma State University, recently conducted a fascinating thought experiment, backed up by detailed calculations.

The thought experiment is notorious for its complexity, which has encouraged a wide variety of interpretations.

"I see Ripley as more of a thought experiment: What would happen if the server validated everything? " he says.

Another thought experiment that gets a lot of play in popular culture is what is known as the "infinite monkey theorem. "

But as a thought experiment, it shows how even Mr Saran's definition of "fair" falls short of the mark.

Let us do a thought experiment that people have been performing for some time.

Actually they seldom performed experiments outside of the thought experiment.

A thought experiment designed to illustrate the counterintuitive and strange notions of reality that come along with quantum mechanics.

But the thought experiment may be useful in preventing the unthinkable from actually happening.

The chameleon on a mirror riddle is best kept in idealized form as a thought experiment.

A new thought experiment on display at the Center for Architecture in New York City offers an alternative vision for the cities of 2030.

Could we outline a working biological Lamarckism as a thought experiment?

Hint: if you leave the baby, you don't get invited to the spaghetti dinner at the thought-experiment firehouse.

Here's a thought-experiment to gauge the merits of different national markets as a safe haven.

So let's try a thought experiment and ask where Britain would be today if they had won the argument.

In it, Rawls devised the famous thought experiment involving the "veil of ignorance. "

The governor's wildest thought experiment has California paying Mexico to build prisons and house California's inmates in them.

To appreciate the importance of social inputs to the evolution of ever higher intelligence, let us do a thought experiment.

Edelstein's personal interest in this thought experiment began 20 years ago, when his son Arthur asked him if there was friction in space.

A thought experiment sheds new light on why aging autocrats remain so hard to dislodge.

A thought experiment illustrating the concepts of entropy.

Anybody can do a simple thought experiment [to refute that].

It's an interesting thought experiment to picture a world suddenly without oil.

Let's start with a thought experiment.

So I want you to think about a thought experiment.

And that's true -- but it's a thought-experiment.

The answer is that we cannot "contextualize" the gospel in the abstract, as a thought experiment.

This is an "informed thought-experiment" rather than a proper prediction.

Enter into the thought experiment.

Here is a thought experiment to test our attitudes to this view.

Most famous opposition is the Chinese room thought experiment which is proposed by language philosopher Searle.

They concocted a thought experiment for their proof.

The data bear out Lykken's thought experiment.

It can be described by using another thought experiment.

Physicist suggests Einstein could have beaten Bohr in famous thought experiment