Abstract
We have found that intuition plays a central role in scientific research and that scientific intuition is an extension of common sense intuition. This extension is accomplished through thought experiments, and our new intuition is then formally defined by a scientific theory. Galileo, for example,imagined a world in which there is a vacuum and in which, therefore, all objects fall with the same acceleration regardless of their weight. This abstraction contradicts our common sense intuition, but it was necessary for formulating a consistent theory of motion. Further thought experiments by Einstein demostrated the need to extend our intuition into a world in which space and time are relative quantities. In turn, this counterintuitive situation became intutive. In each case a scientific theory was the means for understanding worlds beyond sense perceptions.
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