Obviously, none of these outcomes are likely and this is a mere thought experiment.
Now do this thought experiment and try and simulate it in a private sector context.
Try this thought experiment: Your smarty-pants car is fitted with something called intelligent speed adaptation.
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Dr Lloyd and his group have managed to construct a real version of the thought experiment.
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.
The chief executive of Birmingham City Council, Stephen Hughes, liked the thought experiment.
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.
Thought experiment: How many American K-12 teachers and television talking heads scored higher than 600 on the math portion of their SATs?
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.
" The piece asks the reader to consider, as a thought experiment, what would happen if "all the Jews on earth died tonight.
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.
To ask that question after the passage of two centuries, says Pietro Nivola of the Brookings Institution, is to pose an impossible thought experiment.
His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.
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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Try this thought experiment: Suppose the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to 5000 and stayed there, supine and sick with Asian flu, for several years.
Imagine, purely as a thought experiment, this entirely made up example.
It will require you to change your whole conception of the universe, if you will be so kind as to indulge me in this mind- 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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The polarised photons were able to take the place of the particle and the antiparticle in Dr Hardy's thought experiment because they obey the same quantum-mechanical rules.
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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Thought experiment: What if the economy recovers, but only modestly?
One observation and one thought experiment suggest its plausibility.
Consider this thought experiment: Imagine if the incoming Congress and Obama administration raised taxes on capital gains to 30% only to discover that the revenue receipts were not as high as planned.
We can demonstrate the inherent conflict between the pursuit of equality by President Obama and the Left, and the economic growth that most benefits the middle class and the poor, with a simple thought experiment.
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