I used to watch the clouds blowing across the sky and think I was seeing evidence of the earth's rotation.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- When I saw that the clouds were moving in the sky, I thought it was because of the rotation of the earth.Anon
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- When I looked up in the sky and could see the clouds moving I used to think that it was the earth spinning.— JOhn
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen
- I used to believe that when I saw the clouds moving in the sky, that it was actually the earth moving. — Megan Gilbert
- I used to believe that when it would be raining the white clouds lost to the dark clouds.— janet