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

When I was four or five I recall my dad telling me that it was possible to stop time. He's an amatuer physicist, so I'm sure he was just trying to explain some principle that I was too young to understand. The thing is, I have a very distinct memory of him demonstrating this ability. I was able to pluck a "frozen" bumblebee right out of the air and put it in a jar.

Scott

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

When I was small and ran around a lot, I noticed I could hear wind rushing past my ears whenever I was running, and that rushing sound would stop whenever I stopped.

For a long time I couldn't figure out how the wind knew to blow only when I was running and stop blowing when I was standing still.

Stor

in second grade our teacher taught us that the earth spins. for the longest time i thought that if you jumped really high (like 5 feet) and landed you would land a mile from where you originally jumped.

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