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But thought experiments about the lives of aliens can also tell us something about potential trajectories for intelligent life on Earth.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 Aug. 2025
The resulting mysteries and their solutions only get more creative once the gang is back together, even dipping into theoretical science and thought experiments as the basis of his mind-bending stories.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 28 July 2025
Meanwhile, another reckoning — driven by real-world scale, not thought experiments — was already underway.
—John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Amazon's approach involves using what are called cat qubits, named after the famous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment in which a cat in a box that's not visible from outside can be considered dead and alive simultaneously.
—New Atlas, 28 Feb. 2025
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 Aug. 2025
The resulting mysteries and their solutions only get more creative once the gang is back together, even dipping into theoretical science and thought experiments as the basis of his mind-bending stories.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 28 July 2025
Meanwhile, another reckoning — driven by real-world scale, not thought experiments — was already underway.
—John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Amazon's approach involves using what are called cat qubits, named after the famous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment in which a cat in a box that's not visible from outside can be considered dead and alive simultaneously.
—New Atlas, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Thought experiment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thought%20experiment. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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