My parents are religious fanatics, so of course they did not properly explain the "big bang" to me. I am now an atheist, but back then (when I was 7 or so) I thought the "big bang" theory was idiotic. Why? Well, because I thought that the BIG BANG meant that something went *kaboom* and *poof* there was the earth as I knew it! My parents also told me that the theory of evolution meant that humans evolved from monkeys! But then, many uninformed people make that mistake...
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I thought when the Big Bang happened it made an actual bang noise— Catte
- That the "Childcatcher" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang would come up the toilet + catch me while I was on it.— Kat
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed— MrK
- From when I was five until I was about seven, I thought humans had evolved from bears, not apes.— Anthropology Major
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy