It is a matter of opinion whether this demonstrates a lack of attention to craftsmanship or a conscious effort to expand the boundaries of science fiction, either into a kind of magical realism, continuing the process of literary exploration that he had begun with Stranger in a Strange Land, or into a kind of literary metaphor of quantum science ( The Number of the Beast dealing with the Observer problem, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls being a direct reference to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment ).

Strange then, as Cohen says, that philosophers and scientists alike refuse to acknowledge either Galileo in particular, or the thought experiment technique in general for its pivotal role in both science and philosophy.

* Object interaction – Programmers are able to experiment with objects by creating objects on the " Object Bench " and calling individual methods interactively ( including passing of parameters and inspection of results ).

Dr. Karlis Osis, Director of Research at the Parapsychology Foundation, described the basis for the experiment in a tomorrow article, ( `` New Research On Survival After Death '', Spring 1958 ).

In the 1970s the funding Engelbart's group received from the Advance Research Project Agency ( ARPA ) was cut and many key members of Engelbart's team went to work for Xerox PARC where they continued to experiment with the mouse and keyset.

Internally, Alpha processors were also identified by EV numbers, EV officially standing for " Extended VAX " but having an alternative humorous meaning of " Electric Vlasic ", giving homage to the Electric Pickle experiment at Western Research Lab.

Livingstone2 was flown as an experiment onboard Earth Observing 1, and an F-18 at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.

While Nintendo's Research & Development 3 division ( R & D3 ) was focused on developing the Nintendo 64, the other two engineering units were free to experiment with new product ideas.

Research over the past 50 years, starting with the Milgram experiment, suggests that under the right circumstances and with the appropriate encouragement and setting, most people can be encouraged to actively torture others.

A researcher at the Industrial Materials Research Institute, Alessandro Malutta, devised an experiment that demonstrated the trapping action of ultrasonic standing waves on wood pulp fibers diluted in water and their parallel orienting into the equidistant pressure planes.

X-rays from the Sun were detected by the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory Blossom experiment on board.

*" Biorhythm experiment management plan ", NASA, Ames Research Center.

Research into the supposed experiment has revealed many contradictions and inconsistencies in the accounts.

# Research on extraterrestrial HF radar echos: the Lunar Echo experiment ( 2008 ).

Since the first full experiment was published by Honorton and Sharon Harper in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research in 1974, the ganzfeld has remained a mainstay of parapsychological research.

STS-107 carried the SPACEHAB Double Research Module on its inaugural flight, the Freestar experiment ( mounted on a Hitchhiker Program rack ), and the Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.

Other hardware components were supplied as follows: the beam-combining mirror from REOSC at Saint Pierre du Perray ; the spherical, folding and relay mirrors from Carl Zeiss AG in Oberkochen ; the external straylight baffles from CASA in Madrid ; the modulating grid from CSEM in Neuchatel ; the mechanism control system and the thermal control electronics from Dornier Satellite Systems in Friedrichshafen ; optical filters, the experiment structures and the attitude and orbit control system from Matra Marconi Space in Velizy ; instrument switching mechanisms from Oerlikon-Contraves in Zurich ; the image dissector tube and photomultiplier detectors assembled by the Dutch Space Research Organisation, SRON in The Netherlands ; the refocusing assembly mechanism designed by TNO-TPD in Delft ; the electrical power subsystem from British Aerospace in Bristol ; the structure and reaction control system from Daimler-Benz Aerospace in Bremen ; the solar arrays and thermal control system from Fokker Space System in Leiden ; the data handling and telecommunications system from Saab Ericsson Space in Gothenburg ; and the apogee boost motor from SEP in France.

Some commentators, such as Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, suggest that the Argentine experiment has thus far proven successful.

In 2012 Karen Reilly ( Lyon Neuroscience Research Center ) and her colleagues, Pascal Giraux and Estelle Raffin, conducted an experiment in which they demonstrated that the movement of phantom limbs are " real " movements that involve the execution of a motor command.

Research on the demand effect also suggests that people might take on pleasing the experimenter as a goal, at least if it does not conflict with any other motive, but also, improving their performance by improving their skill will be dependent on getting feedback on their performance, and an experiment may give them this for the first time.

Other payloads on STS-93 included the Midcourse Space Experiment ( MSX ), the Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local Exhaust ( SIMPLEX ), the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System ( SWUIS ), the Gelation of Sols: Applied Microgravity Research ( GOSAMR ) experiment, the Space Tissue Loss – B ( STL-B ) experiment, a Light Weight Flexible Solar Array Hinge ( LFSAH ), the Cell Culture Module ( CCM ), the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment – II ( SAREX – II ), EarthKAM, Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity ( PGIM ), the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus ( CGBA ), the Micro-Electrical Mechanical System ( MEMS ), and the Biological Research in Canisters ( BRIC ).

The objective Gelation of Sols: Applied Microgravity Research ( GOSAMR ) experiment was to investigate the influence of microgravity on the processing of gelled sols.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

Popper regarded astrology as " pseudo-empirical " in that " it appeals to observation and experiment ", but " nevertheless does not come up to scientific standards ".

The experiment is the centerpiece of Searle's Chinese room argument which holds that a program cannot give a computer a " mind ", " understanding " or " consciousness ", regardless of how intelligently it may make it behave.

", and he was fond of saying that all of quantum mechanics can be gleaned from carefully thinking through the implications of this single experiment.

They claim that given a specific experiment, in which the outcome of a measurement is known before the measurement takes place, there must exist something in the real world, an " element of reality ", that determines the measurement outcome.

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather ( 1956 ) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to " I Like Myself ", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope.

This experiment inspired the development of several forms of " friction machines ", that greatly helped in the study of electricity.

Milgram summarized the experiment in his 1974 article, " The Perils of Obedience ", writing:

In addition to the classic experiment, reminiscent of Charles Darwin's envisioned " warm little pond ", Miller had also performed more experiments, including one with conditions similar to those of volcanic eruptions.

To make an analogous experiment, a coin might be sliced along the circumference into two half-coins, in such a way that each half-coin is either " heads " or " tails ", and each half-coin put in a separate envelope and distributed respectively to Alice and to Bob, randomly.

In 2008, folk musician Dar Williams released a song called " Buzzer ", in which the narrator participated in the Milgram experiment.

In 2010, luxury brand Enfants Perdus released a collection called " Milgram ", in which the designers drew themes and inspiration from the Milgram experiment.

" Newton's cannonball ", presented as a " thought experiment " in A Treatise of the System of the World, was the first published mathematical study of the possibility of an artificial satellite.

In 1960, Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake performed the first modern SETI experiment, named " Project Ozma ", after the Queen of Oz in L. Frank Baum's fantasy books.

Delta 183 launch vehicle lifts off, carrying the SDI sensor experiment " Delta Star ", on March 24, 1989.

This experiment, called " acoustic tweezers ", can be used for applications in material sciences, biology, physics, chemistry and nanotechnology.

However, in 1944 a short film, " Patrolling the Ether ", was broadcast simultaneously over three stations as an experiment.

Lynch said " Everett firmly believed that his many-worlds theory guaranteed him immortality: His consciousness, he argued, is bound at each branching to follow whatever path does not lead to death ", Tegmark explains, however, that life and death situations don't normally hinge upon a sequence of binary quantum events like those in the thought experiment.

By 1996, JPL was working on a full-fledged aerobot experiment named PAT, for " Planetary Aerobot Testbed ", which was intended to demonstrate a complete planetary aerobot through flights into Earth's atmosphere.

The ancient Greek deiknymi, or thought experiment, " was the most ancient pattern of mathematical proof ", and existed before Euclidean mathematics, where the emphasis was on the conceptual, rather than on the experimental part of a thought-experiment.

In any case, it must be distinguished from a real experiment, which belongs naturally to the experimental discipline and has " the final decision on true or not true ", at least in physics.

Daniel Dennett has derisively referred to certain types of thought experiments such as the Chinese Room experiment as " intuition pumps ", claiming they are simply thinly veiled appeals to intuition which fail when carefully analyzed.