(net time : 148 min)
empathetical: direction, intuitive feeling to be satisfied; Schrödinger equation
analogical: model/structure, more useful in analogy; plum pudding model/solar system model
analytical: details, truth criteria to be satisfied; quantum theory/hv/h/2pi
thought experiment: the construction of an imaginary experimental situation that leads to the same kind of conclusion as one would draw from a real experiment
based on reason, theory and experience
Achilles and tortoise, arrow not moving, everything is infinitely large and small, universal gravitation, absolute space or space~mass, relativity and non-Euclidean space, elevator and bent light, evolution in isolated island, identity in the copy machine, Turin machine and Chinese room, Schrodinger’s cat, Galileo’s refutation, Vaccum, mass transitivity
3 dangers: wrong scientific assumption, assume too much
The contribution of science: critical analysis, skeptical attitude, basic knowledge, probabilistic thinking and evaluate causality, quantitative thinking, hidden assumption, model
Q6: infinity is illusion
Q8: the same as mass transitivity
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