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It's pretty obvious that thought experiments have existed for a long time ("If I kill him, I can mate with the females"). I think what the blog post is saying i
by Jyaif 6y ago
It's pretty obvious that thought experiments have existed for a long time ("If I kill him, I can mate with the females").
I think what the blog post is saying is that thought experiments applied to physics became popular with Einstein.
- guerrilla 6y agoThis is also wrong. Everyone from Aristotle to Newton and onward to Einstein were doing thought experiments in physics the entire time.