When I was 5 or 6, someone told me that the Earth was spinning. I couldn't believe, so I performed an experiment: I drew a sign on the floor and went to sleep. The next morning I found the sign in the same place I had drawn it, so I thought that the Earth hadn't moved.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- When I looked up in the sky and could see the clouds moving I used to think that it was the earth spinning.— JOhn
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I use to believe that the earth rotates on actually axes....i just pictured it spinning on red handle axesAnon
- I thought that the sign "!" meant: "look at the wonderful landscape"— Giorgos
- i always thought that a DEAD END sign
as where they put all the road kill.
— pav - when the sign on the highway said do not pass and dad did i thought he would be in great dangerAnon