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Has it happened that a "thought experiment" has become a real experiment ever?
by narag 6y ago
Has it happened that a "thought experiment" has become a real experiment ever?
- dane-pgp 6y agoMost historians think that this was actually a thought experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Leaning_Tower_of_Pis... An equivalent experiment was famously carried out for real in 1971 on the surface of the Moon.
- simonh 6y agoIn a sense every experiment starts as a thought experiment.
- exo-pla-net 6y agoNot sure exactly what you mean, but Einstein developed relativity largely through thought experiments. And relativity has been verified by real experiments.