Funny characters of the scientific world Bashny.Net

There is such an interesting thing in science - "thought experiment».

It is a way of understanding the world. And sometimes the only way (if we exclude the Occam's razor) explain many things in our lives.
The thought experiment is based on the fact that he played not in real life, but in the imagination of the author.
Why conduct such experiments? Sometimes real demand too many resources, and they are easier to replace the simple imagination. However, this method gives rise to very funny situations and characters worthy of the pen the most extraordinary writers. And, of course, most of them lead to a paradox or even mental refutation.

Many of these experiments characters in any way mentioned in the literature, movies, games and even music. And how often do you learn in a pleasing character of a Schrödinger cat or Maxwell Demon?

You understood correctly. This article is just a compilation of interesting thought experiments and their characters.

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Infinite monkey

Monkey sitting and hammer fingers on the keyboard. She has a chance to write the text of the same complexity and construction Shakespeare sonnets, if given the infinity? However, the wording is slightly different:

Suppose there is an infinite number of infinite monkeys that print on endless typewriters endless rambling text in endless sheets endless amount of time. What is the probability the monkey will publish the original text of Homer?
Scientists have considered that possibility. It was 1/3, 4 • 10 ^ 183 946 in the event that the monkey is only the English alphabet keys (26 pieces), and we have absolutely no difference whether the text punctuation, paragraphs, and even spaces.
What is it? And unless you've never heard of the concept of "sudden" appearance of life on Earth by a completely random mutations in the genotype positive? This thought experiment as it shows the failure of the theory. Mentioned by Douglas Adams and very curious film - Freeway 60. Do not look? Do not read it? Many have lost. In fact, all sorts of analogies encountered this theory from Aristotle to the present day. And what can be concluded?

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