physics

i used to belive that the world was spinning because a basketball player was spinning it on his finger and if someone stole it from him the world would forever be in a night or day

peter

Once when I was much younger I had recieved a helium balloon for my birthday. After playing with it, I popped it. I quickly grabbed a nearby bucket and held the ballon over it waiting for it to leak out. After all, my mom said it was filled with gas.

Ben

When i was younger I learned how that Earth spins, I tried to spin the opposite way the earth was going so I wouldn't get dizzy. After that failed I asked my teacher,"If the earth spins, why am I not dizzy."

I was so embarrased.

Jenna

I used to think that the world doesn’t spin because we aren’t thrown against the walls while trying to move or just being idle.

Anon

There is the common children's belief that stars really are tiny things shining in space, although they are suns, just like ours in the universe.

Natasha

i used to think, and still do, that if ur IN an elevator thats falling down, that u wont die if u jump at the last second

couchguy

When I first learnt about atoms, for some reason I thought that if you shot a gun. You would be killing thousands of atoms as the bullet shot through the air.

Joe

I used to believe that if you were standing on an object while you were falling and if you jumped off it before it hit the ground that you would be okay.

Chris T.

when i first found out the world was round i thought it would fall and smash on the floor

rasverone

I thought if you are exposed to radiation you would instantly mutate and grow extra arms or something like in the comic books. I also thought it could turn you into part animal-part human creature

Nate

When I first found out the the world is constantly moving and we can't feel it I used to to think when ppl feel it was b/c the world was either moving too fast thatday and that person could feel it or it moved the wrong way and that person felt it. hehe

Lori

I used to think that the air from air-con came out because there was a fan behind a freezer and the fan blows the melting ice out to become air-con.

Anon

You all know that you cant see the world turn well, when I was real young when I got dizzy I used to think I could see the world turn (becuase it looks likes the room is turning)!!

Lindsey

One of my friend told me that if you place a coin on a railway track and when the train passes on it, it would turn into a magnet. I tried many times on the tracks at the amuzement park to make a magnet out of a coin and well, I kept on losing my money. One day I realized that it doesn’t happen with a small train so everytime we were travelling by train I always wished for a chance to place a coin underneath…….. I never achieved it and I still laugh at myself.

pramod

pramod

i used to think that if i pour water into a cup and fil it up, it would just keep going up and up on the borders of the cup. to my surprize that the water suddanly began to spill!

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When I was about 6 or so I was fascinated by the fact that when you drop a coin in a fast moving car or train, how it moves through the air at the ame speed, not ending up moving backwards (falling at the point it had been dropped, not straight down). It took a while to realise that this was because the air inside the vehicle was moving too. Even if you open a window.

AMCT

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 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 believe that when tieing knots in rope that the more normal knots you "stacked" on top of each other the stronger the knot would be

C S Wagon

I must have been told in a lesson or something that the world spun, because after that I couldn't understand the concept properly and came to the conclusion that when we walked we were just lifting our feet up and down in the same place but that the world moved underneath us!!

Claire