Thought Experiment

 I mentioned to a team I was working with that I felt that the simulation we were working on was like a thought experiment. I meant it well because I thought the computer enhances our thinking and makes it more precise. My team members had never heard of the idea before. One of them looked it up on Wikipedia and found out that Einstein's Theory of Relativity was a thought experiment. Another of my team members thought it was a good term. But one of the team members took offence and said she didn't want to be part of a thought experiment, and she wanted to do social science. We went back and forth a few times in private emails, and then suddenly, I got a lot of cancellations of our future meetings.