When i was younger I thought "the speed of light" was the time taken for the lights to come on after you had pressed the switch.
I concluded that is was pretty quick, and that flourescent tubes were slower than ordinary bulbs
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I thought if you trip and fall down you fall at the speed of light!— Dietrich Corby
- I used to belive that if we could find the light switch that controlled the sun, we could control the world. Anon
- When i was little i always thought there were little men inside the traffic lights changing the light— Kiley
- I used to believe that the yellow light in traffic-lights meant Go Faster!— M. L. E.
- I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.— Andrew
- i used to believe that the smurfs lived in ordinary mushrooms and i would never eat them!!!— eimear