Adding Degrees of Freedom to Albert Einstein’s Thought Experiments

Albert Einstein’s thought experiments worked well for deducing special and general relativity. I was thinking about them laying in bed on Thursday. Those experiments had an intrinsic limitation in the sense that in each one, Dr. Einstein retained the experiential perspective of a human. Would he have deduced more and “further” had he increased the analyses’ degrees of freedom by placing himself into the hypothetical scenarios as something other than a human?

“What would the world look like if I was sitting on the leading edge of a beam of light?” I believe he asked himself before unraveling the implications of special relativity.

Now…

What would the world look like if I was sitting on the leading edge of a beam of light and I was a creature who “sees” only electromagnetism and the gravitationally induced curves of space…nested within omni-present, non-linear time that isn’t fractured into an artificially assigned past and present separated by that infinitesimal, fleeting gossamer membrane that humans call the present?

That’s a thought experiment!

Now we see more than special relativity. We see…we see…

We see…