Imagine a white Bullet Train (BT) resting peacefully at its source. You are sweetly dressed up in a light blue Polo T-shirt and dark blue Denim and sharply walking towards the soon-to-be-rapid fast monster. You have a sudden light bulb moment that you can accelerate and speed ahead of the BT. So, you patiently sit down in the plush passenger lounge and relax until the train begins to move forward.
The D-Time arrives. You know it's time for you to have a go at the BT as soon it hurls itself forward like a harpoon targetting a whale in the oceans. The BT pulls herself out of the station and starts to hit the top speed. By a miracle, you have the power to outrun and outspeed the BT alongside the track itself. It's a neck and neck race and you come out with flying colours with plenty of time to spare upon reaching the destined destination.
STOP.
Did we just perform a thought experiment now?
Yes and No.
It's a yes as the above situation is totally next-to-impossible by any common man or even the fastest man on Earth - Usain Bolt to outdo a BT in real life but with the faculty and tremendous power of your infinite imagination, you have been able to successfully and audaciously eclipse the BT on the track. IN YOUR HEAD.
It's a No because Thought Experiments are supposed to solve a problem through imagined series of steps that could help the humanity as a whole like how Einstein imagined himself travelling along with a beam of light or Schrodinger's Cat.
In our case, what we have done is to just have a fanciful and wishful thinking that we are apparently superior to BTs. To ELIFY it further, it's nothing more than a fantasy.
So, does that mean as normal human beings we cannot partake in the nuanced art of Thought Experiments?
Don't give up hope so soon until the last line of the blog is read in Part 2.
X---To Be Concluded---X
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