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The big thinkers at Aperture analyze unsolved thought experiments that challenge the mind.

Here’s a thought experiment. You’re a pediatrician. A child walks into your consulting room accompanied by a concerned mother. You do tests, you observe. Fairly quickly you arrive at a diagnosis.

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

The Ship of Theseus thought experiment is a long-standing problem in philosophy that has been debated for centuries. This philosophical debate has been brought back into public discourse by the rise ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

A thought experiment about restarting life with future knowledge explores whether avoiding past mistakes would lead to a better life or erase the one you know entirely.

In J.D. Vance’s interview with Johnathan Karl last Sunday, Vance referred to his policy decisions as a “thought experiment.” George Carlin posthumously has another one for his euphemisms. Crazy, ...