Sentences with phrase «simple thought experiment»

Your very very simple thought experiment just got blown the hell up, and you may not even realize it... maybe never...

And we can prove it with a simple thought experiment.

Here's a simple thought experiment for you.

Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen disagreed, and they suggested a simple thought experiment to explain why: Imagine that a particle decays into two smaller particles of equal mass and that these two daughter particles fly apart in opposite directions.

The Perils of Messing With Relativity Einstein's theory of relativity was rooted in a simple thought experiment: What would happen if someone traveled alongside a beam of light?

They had a simple thought experiment.

A simple thought experiment: when you first wake up in the morning, your thoughts may be sluggish, but your consciousness is so fully active that you are aware you are thinking sluggishly.

Closed timelike curves would make such a program impossible, as a simple thought experiment reveals.

«If a man falls freely, he would not feel his weight... This simple thought experiment... led me to the theory of gravity.»

Consider a simple thought experiment.

To answer the question of whether the trend toward passive investing will help or hinder actively managed funds in their quest for alpha, we can start by engaging in a simple thought experiment.

the simple thought experiment demonstrates completely and absolutely that (under these restrictive conditions) emissivity = absorptivity (at a given wavelength and direction).

Sadly, Prof. Salby's presentation did not include nearly enough information to reproduce the graphs shown above, so I will explain the flaw in his reasoning first via a simple thought experiment, and then illustrate the mainstream understanding of this issue, that is based on the correlation between the annual growth rate and the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which was first mentioned in the peer reviewed literature way back in 1979.

This is why a simple thought experiment is all one needs to understand many of these issues.Nuclear?

lolwat «Simple thought experiment to demonstrate this: Remove all the greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, the oceans would freeze over.»

It is a grave error to extrapolate from a simple thought experiment about an ice cube melting in a glass to a prediction of the behaviour of a vast and interconnected system like the arctic ocean.

A simple thought experiment bears this out.