Thought experiments #

This is a list of nice thought experiments I have encountered.

• Maxwell’s Demon
• Schrodinger’s cat
• Plato’s cave
• Bertrand Russell’s infinite sock drawer
• The infinite library of Babel
• Olber’s paradox
• The Brownian ratchet, which on first inspection seems like an ingeniously simple way to skirt around the second law of thermodynamics.
• Paperclip apocalypse