单词thought-experiment
n.: 思想实验
So with all that said, let me leave you with a thought experiment I use to help keep my priorities in check.
因此综上所述，让我给你们留一个想法，我用来保留我最重要的事。
Closed timelike curves would make such a program impossible, as a simple thought experiment reveals.
封闭的时间型曲线会让这样进行的程序不复存在，就如同一项简单的思维实验所揭示的那样。
In fact, cosmological redshifts can happen even when there seems to be no relative motion at all, as the following thought experiment shows.
事实上，宇宙学的红移，在没有相对运动的情况下也是存在的，就如同下面的思想实验（ThoughtExperiment）所显示的。（待续…）
But the thing about this is that every once in a while we divers can run into trouble, so I"m going to do a little thought experiment here.
但是关键是，每隔一阵儿，我们这些潜水者就会碰上麻烦，所以我会进行项思维实验。
Ultimately, the thing that gives him that clue turns out to be his old faithful way of reasoning--the thought experiment.
最终，给予他线索的原来是他的老忠实的推理方式——思想实验。
The above is only a thought experiment. Just thinking about your day, what will the early morning be like?
上面的仅仅是一个想法的实验，仅仅是思考一下你的一天，早上会是什么样子？
A famous thought experiment asks what you would do with a terrorist who knew the location of a ticking nuclear bomb.
有个著名的思想试验，问你会怎样对待一个知道嘀嗒作响的原子弹方位的恐怖分子。
Put two or three ideas or items in a particle accelerator thought experiment.
把两个或三个的想法或项目放入粒子加速器做实验。
We"ve attempted a thought experiment with tougher standards: predicting a future that"s just around the corner.
我们试图以严格的标准来进行一项思想实验：仅仅预测可见的未来。
The tool you and I would call was daydreaming, but he gets it called thought experiment because he is Einstein.
你和我管它叫白日梦，但是他就是称它为思想实验，因为他是爱因斯坦。