3 ms·Huh? It literally translates to "thought experiment" in English, which is exactly what it means.by gmfawcett 4y agoHuh? It literally translates to "thought experiment" in English, which is exactly what it means.jffry 4y agoI think you may have gotten whooshed by the joke - both "eigenvector" and "gedankenexperiment" are mashups of a German word and an English wordTainnor 4y ago"Gedankenexperiment" is a fully German word, though, not a mashup.