I used to believe that if you could figure out how to suspend yourself in the air (my best plan was a balloon) you would remain stationary and the Earth would rotate below you. Using this method, I planned to travel around the world in just one day.
My brother crushed my dreams by telling me I would never get high enough to clear mountains and I would die when I crashed into them.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- when i was young i used to believe that the sun goes down behind the mountains into the earth— confused
- I used to believe that mountains were giant camels that God put under the earth.— flip4smith
- I used to think an avalanche was a type of bird native to the high mountains— Nina
- I believed dinosaurs made the mountains whenever they walked the earth.— Tammy
- i used to think stigmata meant the really clear, white sunbeams that you could see reaching down to the earth.— lora
- i usd to believe that if i put a balloon on a lawn chair that i could float up in the sky and around the worldAnon