Thought experiments

_curious creatures_

demons

• Laplace's demon (physics)
• Maxwell's demon (physics)
• Desecartes' demon (philosophy)
• Socrates' demon (philosophy)
• Bergson's Demon (philosophy)
• Compton's Demon (philosophy)
• William James' Demon (philosophy)
• Frankfurt's Demon (philosophy)
• Landé's Demon (physics)
• Lewis' Demon (philosophy)
• Loschmidt's Demon (physics)
• Nietzsche's Demon (philosophy)
• Popper's Demon (???)
• Russell's Demon (physics)
• Wiener's Demon (cybernetics)

monsters

• the monster group (math)
• a monster state (physics)
• Utility monster (philosophy)

other

• Faddeev–Popov ghost (physics)
• Floating Man (philosophy)
• Brain in a vat (philosophy)
• gremlins (comsci general)

_curious animals_

• Schrödinger's cat
• Infinite monkey theorem
• infinite pigeons in infinite holes
• Buridan's ass
• Buttered cat paradox
• wittgenstein duck rabbit
• wittgenstein beetle

_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)