The Best Thought Experiments: Schrödinger's Cat, Borel's Monkeys: "When he was 16, Albert Einstein daydreamed about chasing after a beam of light until he caught up to it. At that point, young Einstein reasoned, the light wave would appear frozen. The problem: This was impossible according to the thinking back in 1895."This made me smile. The anecdote describes perfectly how only sixteen-your-olds can think. Make sure to read the whole article - it's light-footed but brilliant.
Image source: Schrodinger's lolcat. More philolsophy in my previous post on Beating a dead meme.
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