It is the least effective part of the day, perhaps because it comes near the end, but also because it is more thought experiment than physical learning.
One comes to the end of the novel feeling that its provocative and entertaining scenes have been little more than thought experiments themselves.
Those are the conceits of "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," by Michael Chabon, and "The Plot Against America," by Mr. Roth, novels that are much more than thought experiments tracking an alternative story of the Jews in North America.
We love nothing more than our "thought experiments," but the key word there is thought.
More precisely, are there thought experiments that enable us to acquire new knowledge about the intended realm of investigation without new empirical data?
Later, his diagrams became more adventuresome and expanded to thought experiments that included what it would be like to sit astride a beam of light and how that corresponded with Picasso's rose period, blue period.
Richard Feynman famously described thought experiments as more elegant than physical ones.
Homework may include activities like breathing exercises, thought experiments, and more.[15].
Quantum theory, for example, was largely driven by empirical results, whereas Einstein's general theory of relativity was more a product of speculation and thought experiments (contrary to what your quote implies).
The idea behind the latter perspective is that the simulation environment is used as an analytical tool, mainly used by researchers and policy makers, for thought experiments, to shed more light on the process under investigation, and perhaps improve existing policies (e.g., for surveillance) (Elffers and Van Baal 2008).
