When I was a child I asked my Dad how the tides worked and why the sea came in and out. He took a long time explaining to me about gravitational forces and the pull of the moon. When he was done, I simply stared at him and said "yeah right dad, pull the other one". I refused to believe this elaborate hoax.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J
- If you pull off the leg of a spider it will rainAnon
- i used to believe that scoripons could crawl up your toilet and pull you in.
No thanks to my big brother!— Alexandra - when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- when i was abotu 5 or 6 i thought that if i were to pull hard enough on my pants, i would float away— Aaron
- My Grandpa told me if I picked my nose I could accidentally pull out my eye. — Jan St. Louis