I used to believe that splitting an atom was done by finding a very thin needle and sticking the needle into the atom.
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an atom bomb was a dragon in the sky.— Mazzkitten
- I used to believe that the sky is just a very thin blue egg shell— Alan
- I used to believe that when people died, they vanished into thin air. — KJ
- i used to beleve that the sun had thin long legs and followd me wherever i went..— Hege
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- I thought until fairly recently that bacon came from the skin of a pig and that's why it was so thin— Nate