School of Thinking

JUST SUPPOSE?

Posted on June 11th, 2007 by Michael

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: Just suppose I sat on a light beam. What would I see?

This is the question Albert Einstein asked himself at 16. He called it a “thought experiment”. By the time he had answered it five years later he had made the greatest single discovery ever made by a human brain.

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Asking ‘Just Suppose’ is a great way to surprise yourself and to get outside your own head. Use random connections. Take quantum leaps.

What thought experiment can you do today?

Just suppose my car could talk, what would it say? Just suppose I was boss, what would I do? Just suppose my house was a pineapple …. ?

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