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Didn't plenty of new ideas start with analogies? I can think of Feynman and Einstein who described imagining or noticing things in real life which gave rise new
by rdtsc 10y ago
Didn't plenty of new ideas start with analogies? I can think of Feynman and Einstein who described imagining or noticing things in real life which gave rise new ideas in physics.
- dhimes 10y agoProbably just a semantic difference in what they mean by "start." In this instance, the waterbed analogy would suggest some sort of negative mass-energy and a mass-energy conservation law.
- paulddraper 10y agoThey started by observations (e.g. light is constant speed), and using those in thought experiments (e.g. light on a train going 0.5c). They didn't start by noticing everyday phenomenon and extrapolating those observations. Similar, but different.
- paulddraper 10y ago...unless you're talking about string theory. That's a close comparison to the waterbed theory.
- mannykannot 10y agoYou would have to explain to some extent what the analogy is, and what it means for the real world, before we could begin to discuss whether it is in any way correct, let alone useful.