Einstein's thought experiments

[Staples]

You may have heard about how Einstein discovered his theory of general relativity and his other discoveries through thought experiments. All of his greatest discoveries were pulled out of his thought experiments. 

Would you call this a kind of siddhi? Could it be practiced and developed like one? Does this phenomena already have a name?

 

[Nahm]

@Staples Could you post some material with specifics about the thought experiments he did?

[Staples]

@Nahm Oops, meant to post this link http://www.businessinsider.com/5-of-albert-einsteins-thought-experiments-that-revolutionized-science-2016-7//?r=AU&IR=T/#imagine-youre-chasing-a-beam-of-a-light-1

[Leo Gura]

No, that is INSIGHT.

[Joseph Maynor]

Einstein had a hand in both relativity and quantum mechanics, which is pretty impressive in itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

https://m.phys.org/news/2014-06-einstein-quantum-mechanics-hed-today.html

Edited March 30, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[Geromekevin]

@Staples I'm a studied physicists. Einstein was a very intelligent genius.

The way he discovered reality using his mind is the best way to use thoughts. I think it's a shame that modern physicist have given up this way of contemplating about the world. There is a lot of dogma and following the "greater" physicists footsteps one by one nowadays. Most physicists hate going off branch and using odd techniques of discovering new things and / or going different ways than what they learned. Which is why physics progresses relatively slowly at the moment.

We need to be more skeptical of the current status quo, even if we are proven wrong and the status quo is right...

Edited March 30, 2018 by Geromekevin
Physicists aren't afraid of discovering new things, they acutally want to do that. But they don't want to try out super different techniques.