Your gedankenexperiment for today is to ask yourself, regardless of your religious beliefs, if the editors of National Geographic, being given an ancient manuscript that “proved” the Koran was nothing more than the blatherings of some ergot-besotted Bedouin who had eaten one too many hallucinogenic plants, would have published the same as loudly and as broadly? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Anyway, just because John Ajvide Lindqvist also wrote a good zombie novel yes, it was good, despite the zombies, I'll post a link to Better Zombies Through Physics at Tor.com, where we see yet another example of how the gedankenexperiment by Schrödinger about the cat in the box inspires popular culture. ❋ X00c5;ka (2008)
Richard undertakes a gedankenexperiment about "literary patents" and the impact they would have had on Victor Hugo as he sat down to pen Les Miserables. ❋ Unknown (2005)
So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to the stores? ❋ Unknown (2005)
Seth responds with this great gedankenexperiment from John Maynard Keynes: ❋ Unknown (2005)
(Susan Blackmore suggested that students should act out this famous gedankenexperiment, after all, though how that would help still rather eludes me.) ❋ Unknown (2010)
That thing is summed up by Einstein's word gedankenexperiment. ❋ IEET (2010)
He proposed a gedankenexperiment in which the collectivist assumptions of classical utopias were set at naught by a simple mechanism: ❋ The Curmudgeon Emeritus (2010)
Like Einstein's greatest ideas, the theory of evolution is based on a simple gedankenexperiment: start with a very simple reproducing organism, add Mendel's laws of heredity and mutability, and follow the system as it inescapably branches out into a tree of life. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Consider this gedankenexperiment: Would American lawyers be happy with the converse, such as arguing a complex matter at the intersection of First Amendment and defamation law, on the law only, before a panel consisting of a mechanical engineer, a particle physicist, and a clinical psychologist, none of whom had taken even a single law-school course? ❋ Unknown (2008)
What’s more, it’s a gedankenexperiment, Krashen doesn’t suggest in any way that this should or could be put into teaching practice. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Disclaimer: the following gedankenexperiment does not necessarily represent the author’s actual views on the nature and character of homosexuality, religion, and/or the interactions thereof. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Here’s a little “gedankenexperiment” for you, Traveller: Go through the excerpts I posted…or go back to their source, as you prefer…and do a global replace of Muslim with Jew, of Islam with Judaism…and see what it starts to look like, and understand why one might get a bit “concerned” about the prominence of such rhetoric. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Now a gedankenexperiment: Substitute the question “Can a Christian accept biological evolution?” and guess what they’d say. ❋ Unknown (2005)
No gedankenexperiment is [necessary]. ❋ DamnYouDictionary (2022)
