Unleashing the Power of Human Mind: A Journey Through Thought Experiments

 

Gedankenexperiment, (German for: “thought experiment”) . Basically devices of the imaginations. It is such an interesting way to approach a situation. Rather than thinking and giving a solution conducting experiments, it engages our imaginations in giving possible solutions. Some thought experiments fulfil particular work within a theory. Others are executed because it is impossible to run the experimental scenario in the real world. It's among One of the many things that I find quite fascinating. There been times when I spent hours and hours sitting on a chair and running through an hypothetical situation in my mind, and what could be its possible solution. It is a step out of my comfort zone. Putting myself in a situation where I cannot answer with ease, surely helps me realize my limits and helps me grow.

There's no doubt about it's contribution to our modern world. Einstein's most famous Thought Experiment, Einstein thought back on how, at his juvenile years, he visualized chasing after a beam of light and that the thought experiment had emulated in his development of special relativity. Also, how gravity is the curvature of Space-time. All of which was the product of pure imagination.

 

They do allow us to tap into a great store of “instinctive knowledge” picked up from past experience.

One day I was watching one of the episodes of NOVA . It was a documentary on black hole. That's when I learnt the term "Thought experiments”. And, How Karl Schwarzschild mathematically proved the existence of black hole and he devised a solution for general relativity. Since then I have been hooked up to it. I tried searching books after books , but our local shops don't really stock them. Then I came across few Science YouTube channels. Among which, my favorite is "What if?".

It is an extensively unique platform, who strive for epic exploration of countless possibilities. Some of their thought experiments are like, "What if we had a working Wrap Drive Technology?" "What if we could harness the energy of a Black Hole?" "What if we sent our trash into sun?" "What if we brought Europa's ocean water to Earth?"

These are some excellent food for thoughts. This basically helped me develop my imaginative faculty and also develop my problem-solving skills just by visualizing. Specially in math and physics.

This conceptual believe always run in my mind. It makes me more thoughtful, which uplift me to discover the unknown. Enthralling me in such a way that, I feel myself competent to solve .

Now I can express myself as a convergent thinker, as I always engage myself in assembling information in-order to finding a solution or coming to a nearer point. Thus keeping myself lost in the art of thought.