My mom told me that the earth was always spinning. This fasinated me, but the next morning when I woke up excited to see my back yard and front yard switched I was very disappointed. My mom had to explain to me that it was the whole earth that moved, not just the yard around the house.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I believed until near adulthood that when I was 6 or 7 I had actually flown for several feet in my back yard. — Jane S Poole
- I used to believe that airplanes would land in your yard and pick you up.— Rachel
- Me and my sister used to dig holes in the yard because we thought we could dig to china.— Savannah
- 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 if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I use to believe that the earth rotates on actually axes....i just pictured it spinning on red handle axesAnon