gedankenexperiment
See also: Gedankenexperiment and gedanken experiment
English
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editEtymology
editFrom German Gedankenexperiment (“thought experiment”), from Gedanke (“thought”) + Experiment (“experiment”).
Noun
editgedankenexperiment (plural gedankenexperiments)
- thought experiment
- 2005 January 6, Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing[1], retrieved 2012-02-04:
- So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to the stores?
- 2005 Aug, Eugene Mirabelli, “The Woman in Schrödinger's Wave Equations”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 109, number 2, page 143:
- John told her about his dissertation, about the equations he had concocted from a gedanken experiment. "What's a gedanken experiment?" she asked him. / "It's where you just think an experiment, but you don't actually do it, you just think it through," he told her.
Usage notes
editOften found as two words gedanken experiment.
Translations
editthought experiment — see thought experiment