When I as little I used to think gravity could be turned off. Never having grasped the concept of gravity completely, I used to think that there was a big switch in the middle of the Earth which could be shut down at any moment and we would all fall off. Everytime I looked at pictures of the Earth (such as in school or in the movies) I used to close my eyes and I was horrified. I remember pleading my mom to move to the North Pole since according to my theory, this was the only safe place where we would be unable to fall from.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
- 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 used to believe that until gravity was invented, people used to just float around!— Meg
- I thought if someone hadn't passed the Law of Gravity, we would all be floating around in space.— Trudee
- I always thought that everytime it got cold or snowed, the plant Neptune came closer to earth.— Andy T