Alternate Universe

Originally posted by googlefudge
That is irrelevant.

The point of a thought experiment is to do a 'what if' scenario that enables conclusions to be drawn about reality.

It is a common thing to do in science to imagine what the world were different (in a specified way) and use that
as a comparison with how the world is.
It's also useful in criminal investigation (unsurprising as ...[text shortened]... tangible difference then that would tend to suggest the non-existence of god in this reality.

It is like imagining that everything came into existence by accident and
there was no intelligence behind it but by chance intelligence resulted.
This is real science, is it?

Originally posted by RJHinds
It is like imagining that everything came into existence by accident and
there was no intelligence behind it but by chance intelligence resulted.
This is real science, is it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment