When I was abouve 6 or 7, I once overheard my dad explaining to my mom the concept of splitting atoms to get energy.
For at least the next year or so, I constantly asked my mom about my cousin Adam, worried that he might be the next one split.
A childhood belief about chemistry
others believed things like this
- I thought the white circles you see when looking at a bright window were what atoms of air look like.— H.
- My 5-year old cousin used to believe the garbagemen were stealing their trash.Anon
- My five-year-old cousin thinks that his parents purchased him from Wal-Mart.Anon
- I used to believe that all my energy "came from my nipples and my back" I literally said that to my parents.— Eleanor R
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- When I was very little, I used to think that there were two New Zealands because how it split on the map!— Azure Autumns