These "thought experiments" were pages of calculations signed and submitted to the prestigious journal Annalen der Physik by a virtual unknown.

这些“思想实验”是几页纸的计算，由一个虚拟的未知者签名并提交给著名的《物理学年鉴》杂志。

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These findings match past studies that were only abstract thought experiments.

这些发现与以前的那些仅仅是抽象的思想实验的研究相符合。

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Like physicists, philosophers play with such conundrums by engaging in thought experiments.

跟物理学家一样，哲学家对于这种难懂的问题采用的是方式是进行思维试验。

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As I mentioned at the end of last lecture, what I want to do is offer us a set of thought experiments.

正如我在上一讲最后提到的，我想做一些思考实验。

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They've got to be thought experiments, because in real life,bodies and personalities go hand in hand.

它们必须是思考实验，因为现实中肉体和人格密不可分。

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we thought about using juice, the kinds of stimuli that you would use in animal experiments.

我们想过使用果汁，这种刺激物也会在动物试验中使用。

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He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data.

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As with the special theory, his thinking had evolved through thought experiments.

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The main purpose of thought experiments, though, is to show that a problem is soluble in principle and so to encourage others to try to solve it in practice.

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