Hi Team.

Does the word “Gedankenexperimente" mean anything to you?

No?

We’ll I’ll tell you why it should.

As a 16-year-old kid, Albert Einstein used to get so anxious about tensions of theoretical physics (as we all do…) that it’d make his palms sweat. It was this passion that drove him, over time, to hone the general theory of relativity that has shaped the face of scientific theory as we know it. And this would never have been possible if Einstein hadn’t embraced “ideas that he twirled around in his head rather than in a lab”; rising up rather than submitting to the rigid rules of memorisation at his German boarding school.

 Einstein called them gedankenexperimente. I don’t know about you, but that’s quite a mouthful for me. So lets call them ‘visualised thought experiments’, and lets push ourselves to keep Lewis Road’s fresh, original, and overall innovative initiative.

 Take note of what makes your palms sweat, team. What elements are others blind to, but are glaringly obvious to you?

Take note, write it down, share your thoughts. Never stop thinking. Never stop daydreaming, and don’t be afraid to stimulate your mind’s eye when your physical eyes need a break from that screen you’ve been staring at all day.

"That ability to visualize the unseen has always been the key to creative genius. As Einstein later put it, 'Imagination is more important than knowledge.’”

PS - Full article for the interested: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/sunday/the-light-beam-rider.html?_r=2&referer=