SVOBODOVÁ, Jindřiška and Jan NOVOTNÝ. THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS FROM EARLY COSMOLOGY FOR STUDENTS. In INTED2023 Proceedings. 1st ed. Valencia: INTED2023, 2023, p. 302-306. ISBN 978-84-09-49026-4. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2023.0114.
Other formats:   BibTeX LaTeX RIS
Basic information
Original name THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS FROM EARLY COSMOLOGY FOR STUDENTS
Authors SVOBODOVÁ, Jindřiška and Jan NOVOTNÝ.
Edition 1. vyd. Valencia, INTED2023 Proceedings, p. 302-306, 5 pp. 2023.
Publisher INTED2023
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Country of publisher Spain
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW https://library.iated.org/publications/INTED2023 stránka se seznamem konference
Organization unit Faculty of Education
ISBN 978-84-09-49026-4
ISSN 2340-1079
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2023.0114
Tags Cosmology Teaching, Science Teaching Issues
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: RNDr. Jindřiška Svobodová, Ph.D., učo 384. Changed: 30/3/2023 15:47.
Abstract
A thought experiment represents a theoretical intermediate step in situations where the physical realization of the experiment is impossible or would not yield convincing results at a given level of knowledge and technology. Our students first become familiar with a specific historical thought experiment, looking to see what assumptions were made and what supporting arguments were advanced to support the author's conception. The analysis, moreover, helps students understand that sometimes, until science obtains empirical data that decide in favor of one concept or another, different explanations can persist side by side in parallel. In this paper, we will present and discuss 3 assignments compiled from historical sources. 1. Aristotelian thought experiment to show the earth could not move. Aristotle puts the stationary Earth at the centre; that the Earth does not move is evidenced by the fact that a stone thrown vertically upwards returns along the same trajectory to the same place from which it was thrown. 2. Galileo's thought experiment "On Falling Bodies" as an argument against Aristotle's conception where bodies fall at different speeds 3. In Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo speculate on the origin of the planets.
PrintDisplayed: 27/4/2024 15:31