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Armchair science: Do thought experiments really uncover new scientific truths
28 mins | Jan 3, 2018
From Galileo to Einstein, thought experiments played a crucial role in the history of science. But Dan Falk, writing in Aeon magazine, questions whether they tell us anything important about the real world.
