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The Importance of Gravity
A thought experiment is when you try to imagine something as a way of seeing how it might work. Einstein said he was slow to talk and didn't get great grades in school, especially in subjects that bored him. When he was interested in something, he'd often spend a lot of time thinking about it. He had other famous thought experiments that involved people falling from roofs and moving trains.