Suppose, as a thought experiment, that he had looked like a Max Planck or a Niels Bohr.
At this point, it's as much a thought experiment as an attempt to create a usable tool.
In this experiment, which was originally a thought experiment but has recently been conducted, time seems to run backward.
But in 1985, David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, came up with a thought experiment that might do this.
To prove this point, Johnson did a thought experiment in which he extrapolated California's historically crazy-fast growth rate into the future.
As trout season opens around the U.S., a thought experiment on the top 10 flyfishing states in the country, listed in no particular order.
As a thought experiment, it asks whether you prefer to focus on the maximum amount of pleasure in any given experience or the average pleasure.
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Imagine, purely as a thought experiment, this entirely made up example.
The point of such a thought experiment is to demonstrate that China has enormous productive powers to mobilise, and has to spend a lot to mobilise them fully.
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It was part of a thought experiment intended to illustrate the bizarre nature of the quantum world, in which particles can persist in two states at once and, as a consequence, a cat can be both dead and alive.
Novy-Marx concludes with a thought experiment where he substitutes GASB accounting with an identical system where future liabilities are discounted at the muni rate (after all, the risk of non-payment to pensioners is no different, or in most case lower, than the risk to bondholders).
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At Vassar College, in the 1980s, the argument was usually framed with a thought-experiment: Imagine that you wake up in a hospital bed, hooked up to a machine and soon realize that if you disconnect yourself from the machine, the person in the next bed will die.
In our view, the problem is more exactly the internalisation of shareholder value pressures, and to illustrate the point we present below a kind of thought experiment about a different Apple (without shareholder value) which was willing to accept lower margins and employ more US blue collar labour.
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Obviously, none of these outcomes are likely and this is a mere thought experiment.
As a thought-experiment, let's imagine that technology switches and lifestyle changes manage to halve American energy consumption to 125 kWh per day per person.
But I found his thought experiment a useful tool for my own.
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Barry Bonds at his best was a kind of walking thought experiment.
Or consider how Honest Tea, the organic tea company that is an independently run wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, combined web video technology and a thought-provoking purchase experiment to cut through the clutter in the over-crowded beverage market.
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Dr Lloyd and his group have managed to construct a real version of the thought experiment.
This led Nicolla Webber to an interesting thought experiment whereby a person with their hemispheres severed could actually be convinced that they were two separate people.
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"People have a wine at a restaurant and they want to buy it retail, " said Mr. Adams, adding that he thought a restaurant was an excellent place to experiment.
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Now do this thought experiment and try and simulate it in a private sector context.
Asking the right questions is probably the most important part of the thought process and it turns out you can run a company successfully as a data science experiment if you ask questions.
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