Ah, the immense name change thingy. You sure focus on the important stuff.
The important stuff is that you have used made up names and credentials to lend support to your inane videos. So perhaps it is a good thing that you are finely using your real name. It is far easier to check the credentials of a 70 year old retired dentist, living in Laguna Hills than it is some made up Phd at a made up think tank.
Thought experiments? Thomas, didn't you know that Einstein came up with relativity with thought experiments?
Well actually relativity goes back, at least as far as Galileo. So do inertial isolated systems.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher will not say it - Cicero.
Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead - Stephen Hawking