When I was about 7 or 8, I thought that as I walked along the sidewalk I was stationary and the Earth was turning beneath me. It was a strange little illusion, but even now if I think about it I can still fall into it...
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the wind was from the earth turning.Anon
- i thought if you went to the bottom of the earth you would fall off.— Tiffany Amber Stefanko
- When I was younger, I thought I could run and fall off the edge of the earth. Anon
- I believed dinosaurs made the mountains whenever they walked the earth.— Tammy
- When looking at the clouds and seeing them move I use to think it was the world rotating beneath.— Andy
- I used to believe that if passed beneath a rainbow I would turn into a woman.— Felipe