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Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Is ChatGPT a philosopher? Recently, I asked it to weigh in on some of the biggest philosophical debates – the Trolley Problem, the Ship of Theseus, and Brain in a Vat. Not just for fun, but because AI ...

The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries. This philosophical debate has been brought back into public discourse by the rise ...

Here’s a thought experiment. You’re a pediatrician. A child walks into your consulting room accompanied by a concerned mother. You do tests, you observe. Fairly quickly you arrive at a diagnosis.

The faster you move, the stranger time becomes. By imagining how light travels to two people moving at different speeds, Einstein showed that time isn’t absolute. His thought experiment revealed that ...

A near-100-year-old debate between the theoretical physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr has finally been settled—and not in the former’s favor. A team of physicists in China have realized a ...

Nearly a century after Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr turned a technical disagreement into a philosophical duel, a new generation of experiments has given Bohr the edge in their most famous clash. By ...

In J.D. Vance’s interview with Johnathan Karl last Sunday, Vance referred to his policy decisions as a “thought experiment.” George Carlin posthumously has another one for his euphemisms. Crazy, ...