Einstein Performed Thought Experiments to Understand the Implications of the Postulates

question 30

Multiple Choice

Einstein performed thought experiments to understand the implications of the postulates of special relativity because

• A) the speeds involved are too large to easily generate.
• B) did not know how to build an apparatus that would test his ideas.
• C) he could not carry out the experiments alone and no other scientists would work with him.
• D) he was too poor to afford the necessary experimental apparatus.

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