when i was about 6 we did a project at school about space and our teacher told us about 'black holes' that were big enough to suck in the earth and squash it. I was terrified and for several weeks i used to pray every night that the earth wouldn't get swallowed. Then i think i forgot about it!
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe the earth was covered with shiny cloth at night by God.. — akz
- i used to believe that you could see 2 suns from somewhere on earth— bramblepicker
- I used to believe we lived IN the earth rather than ON it.— AC
- I used to believe that the earth was flat.— Rt.y
- That if there was an Antarctica, there had to be and Arctica somewhere on the other end of the earth. — tammy
- when i was young i used to believe that the sun goes down behind the mountains into the earth— confused