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Galileo's Thought Experiment on the Moon
There are some similarities in the way that real experiments and thought experiments can fail but let's leave that as a bit of a teaser. For starters, maybe we should talk about the more successful thought experiments because there have been some pretty illuminating thought experiments that have been used. You brought up one of my favorites in the teaser for this episode which was Galileo's thought experiment showing that objects of different mass will fall at same rate.