"gedankenexperiment" meaning in English

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          "text": "So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to the stores?",
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          "text": "John told her about his dissertation, about the equations he had concocted from a gedanken experiment. \"What's a gedanken experiment?\" she asked him. / \"It's where you just think an experiment, but you don't actually do it, you just think it through,\" he told her.",
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