There were train tracks just back of my grandmothers house. I was 5 or 6 and used to try to run too close. My grandmother told me that there was a vaccummm force and if I was too close when it whooshed by the force would suck me under and i would of course die. Hence I stayed away from all train tracks. In highschool science we learned of many different forces but I still beleievd this maybe was cintrifgal or the doppler effect with air ...Ok I didnt listen much in science, until the day i was visiting a friend in my twenties and ran like hell from the tracks becasue a train was coming. When I told them why they laughed themselves silly . I can't believe I still kept this idea for so long.
A childhood belief about physics
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- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- After Grange Hill's "Just say no campaign" that people would force me to take drugs ... if only.— Netty
- I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous