I grew up hearing a lot about the atom bomb, and, having just heard about atoms in school, I thought that these incredibly powerful bombs were, well, the size of a single atom. When my father told me that atoms were always dropping off of me I was wondering how there weren't explosions everywhere.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an atom bomb was a dragon in the sky.— Mazzkitten
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- I thought the white circles you see when looking at a bright window were what atoms of air look like.— H.
- I used to believe that sonic booms were huge explosions that only occured at the very tops of mountains.— Jessica Tinch
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I used to think that there were no bombs or casualties in England in World War One!— History person