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  2. Einstein's thought experiments - Wikipedia

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    In his popular work, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Einstein translates the formal presentation of his paper into a thought experiment using a train, a railway embankment, and lightning flashes. The essence of the thought experiment is as follows: Observer M stands on an embankment, while observer M ' rides on a rapidly traveling ...

  3. Relativity of simultaneity - Wikipedia

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    The train-and-platform experiment from the reference frame of an observer on board the train Reference frame of an observer standing on the platform (length contraction not depicted) A popular picture for understanding this idea is provided by a thought experiment similar to those suggested by Daniel Frost Comstock in 1910 [ 16 ] and Einstein ...

  4. Dream interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece , dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention , whose message could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers.

  5. ‘Train Dreams’ Review: A Landmark Homage to the Unsung ...

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    Train Dreams” depicts that give-and-take dynamic, celebrating those who tamed the West — men whose anonymous, sunburned mugs appeared in antique photos, no bigger than Lincoln’s head on ...

  6. Railway platform - Wikipedia

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    Platform 1 is a "bay" platform, while platforms 2, 3 and 4 are "through" platforms. The platform accommodating 3 and 4 is an "island" platform. Platform types include the bay platform, side platform (also called through platform), split platform and island platform. A bay platform is one at which the track terminates, i.e. a dead-end or siding ...

  7. Snakes showing up in your dreams? That's not actually a ... - AOL

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    As a professional dream interpreter and the author of “The Alchemy of Your Dreams,” I help people come to insights about recurrent patterns and symbols that pop up in their dreams, like snakes.

  8. Trolley problem - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, a group led by Michael Stevens performed the first realistic trolley-problem experiment, where subjects were placed alone in what they thought was a train-switching station, and shown footage that they thought was real (but was actually prerecorded) of a train going down a track, with five workers on the main track, and one on the ...

  9. Ann Faraday - Wikipedia

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    Ann Faraday is a British psychologist, who conducted an experimental study of dreams for her PhD thesis at University College London. [1] After several years in experimental dream research, she then trained in hypnotherapy, Freudian and Jungian analysis and Gestalt therapy.