In addition to that you need to open up and say okay, well some things are new, some things are different what if we experimented in that space and experimentation is never lean.
What if we ran an experiment to see if the exact same excitement would come from a flag football league.
So here's a thought experiment: What if we were to reconceive the postal system in light of that network?
Still, it might be worth a thought experiment: What if we time-transported a random sample of, say, 18th- or 19th-century Americans to compare to contemporary Americans ?
But as a thought experiment, what if we could remove all of the knowledge we have today, think back to 2009 and figure out the key insights that would make us want to invest in Airbnb, Uber, Twitter¹, Dropbox and others, then come back to 2015, and apply those insights to the ideas of today?
What if we were to perform two experiments, one for a series of measurements of at different concentrations,, with solution 1 present and the other for a similar series of measurements for with solution 1 absent.
And, what if we could – this is a thought experiment, after all – give them the levels of education, the access to accumulated knowledge in advice books and the like, perhaps even access to the Internet that Americans today have?
So I started this as a social experiment six months ago: what if we all stopped texting, and had an actual face-to-face conversation once in a while?
Inspired by Foucault's Pendulum, the device used to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, UVA asked, "What if we could re-create [Foucault's] experiment but take control of it?" The result is a hypnotic and unforgettable exhibition open to the public through June. .
Beginning in 1933, we embarked on a series of experiments: when recession threatens, what if we monkey with the currency in the form of interest rate manipulation and "quantitative easing"?
You could find out by trying thousands of combinations, but what if each experiment costs a lot of money?
