Thought experiments

_curious creatures_

*Laplace's demon (physics)
*Faddeev–Popov ghost (physics)
*Maxwell's demon (physics)
*Desecartes demon (philosophy)
*Floating Man (philosophy)
*Brain in a vat (philosophy)
*the monster group (math)
*a monster state (physics)
*Utility monster (philosophy)
*gremlins (comsci general)

_curious animals_

*Schrödinger's cat
*Infinite monkey theorem
*infinite pigeons in infinite holes
*Buridan's ass
*Buttered cat paradox

_curious objects_

*devil's staircase
*gabriel's horn
*Feynman sprinkler
*Galileo's ship
*Heisenberg's microscope
*Ladder paradox
*Newton's cannonball
*Sticky bead argument
*big book
*infinite library
*Brainstorm machine
*Ship of Theseus
*Plank of Carneades
*plato's cave
*zeno's arrow

_curious persons_

*Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-tester
*Twin paradox
*Wigner's friend
*Prisoner's dilemma
*The Monkey and the Hunter
*Quantum suicide and immortality
*Two Generals' Problem
*Dining philosophers problem
*Violinist (ethics)