{"id":3784,"date":"2009-10-02T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2009-10-02T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T08:00:30","slug":"gedanken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3784","title":{"rendered":"Gedanken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morningcoffeephysics.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/30\/the-physicists-toolbox-thought-experiments\/\">Morning Coffee Physics:  The Physicist\u2019s Toolbox: Thought Experiments<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Physics is an empirical science which means that you can do all the thinking and theorising you want, but at the end of the day, if it doesn\u2019t match the real world experimental results, it\u2019s wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve harped on this before.  If you manage an unphysical result or contradiction in your thought experiment, it means your thought is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/morningcoffeephysics.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/02\/the-physicists-toolbox-symmetry\/\">The Physicist\u2019s Toolbox: Symmetry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning Coffee Physics: The Physicist\u2019s Toolbox: Thought Experiments Physics is an empirical science which means that you can do all the thinking and theorising you want, but at the end of the day, if it doesn\u2019t match the real world &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}