Gedanken experiment

Related to Gedanken experiment: Thought experiment

Gedanken experiment

[ge′däŋk·ən ik‚sper·ə·mənt]

(physics)

A hypothetical (“thought”) experiment which is possible in principle and is analyzed (but not performed) to test some hypothesis. Also known as thought experiment.

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2007) Experimental realization of Wheeler's delayed-choice Gedanken Experiment (LPQM), Science 315, 5814 (2007) 966, 10.

Non-locality as a fundamental principle of reality: Bell's theorem and space-like interconnectedness

This gedanken experiment and Planck's statement point to a direct contradiction of Kirchhoff's law, as the radiation within all cavities is supposed to be black, independent of the nature of the walls.

Further insight relative to cavity radiation III: Gedanken experiments, irreversibility, and Kirchhoff's law

In this work, the variable nature of cavity radiation is affirmed by addressing a Gedanken experiment which is often invoked to justify Kirchhoff's law, either in the classroom or within textbooks.

Further insight relative to cavity radiation II: Gedanken experiments and Kirchhoff's law

The method we had used as a gedanken experiment to send N light pulses is depicted via the Fig.

Local doppler effect, index of refraction through the earth crust, PDF and the CNGS neutrino anomaly?

1) is actually based on a modification of a gedanken experiment proposed originally by Wheeler [23].