physics

when i was little i always wondered why hot food would get cold if you left it out too long, and cold food would get hot. when i was about 12 i realized it was food turning to room temperature.

Flow

People said that the earth spinned but I never felt this "spin". I then swiftly came to the conclusion that the only way to feel the earth move was to spin around in circles and that your dizzyness was actually the enlightenment of feeling the earth move.

My science teacher told me I was wise for my age.

Anon

i used to think that the earth spun so fast you couldnt feel it (and it also kept us down with gravity) and if you got headaches it was because you were starting to feel it a little. and i also thought that we were inside a globe, like a snowglobe.

sarah

I used to believe that batteries in an appliance (like my old sony walkman) would 'spin' when the item was used.
I spent many hours quickly opening the battery compartment trying to see the batteries turning, but obviously didnt succeed!!

Paul Peej

I used to believe that Electricity was chiped overseas in large thick rubber boxes on ships.

Anon

I thought the universe was really a grid where every cell can have either the value zero or one.

I also used to think mind and work were extra dimensions

Anon

I used to think that gravity could power anything and that you could evn make a perpetual motion machine, but I knew you couldn't make a perpetual motion machine, so I could not understand it

Anon

I use to think gravity only existed because we thought it does, so I tried to hold something in the air and not drop it, I thought I dropped it because of what I was doing with my hands.

Anon

After they thaught me which was the righthand side and which was the left, I was convinced that I could also always tell were the North is. I thought everyone had some sort of a mental GPS that kept track of every turn you made. Compasses were only usefull to point it out more exactly. I admit still thinking naïvely that I’m good at gessing where the North lays.

Bert

I used to believe that the gum on the sidewalk that was the color black was gravity, and if it all of the pieces were peeled off around the world, everyone would float into outerspace

michael

After spinning around in a chair or just self-propelled, I thought the spinning environment was the earth rotating. I used to do it a lot cuz i thought it was the only way i could see the earth spinning.

tree

When I was three, I thought that cars stayed one place and the earth moved under us when we drove places. One day my mom asked how I would explain the cars that were moving toward us. I told her that the earth must be split in two so it could move in two directions at once. Then we went under an over pass and I could no longer understand how in the world we were still moving.

SRQRobert

when i was a kid i thought the needle on the compass should point direction i was going,
but it always pointed the wrong way!
- couldn't figure that out.

Pete

I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.

Mario

I used to beleive that if you had a big enough magnet, you could reverse the rotation of the Earth and time would go backwards.

Anon