My brother convinced me that the world spinned around on its axis because it was at a very perfect angle that scientists couldn't easily reproduce. He told me that if I took out the school globe and adjusted it juuuuuust right that it would start spinning! I spent hours trying to get it to spin.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- a friend was convinced that his school was an asylum, and couldn't be convinced otherwiseAnon
- I used to think that you could feel the world spinning.Anon
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- I used to think topping yourself meant killing yourself by spinning upside down, like a spinning top!!— Natasha
- when i was young i thought that a giant made the world slowly spin!— ~kassie~
- When I was 6 I believed that on nice summer days you can see the world spin if you just look hard enough :)Anon