I used to believe that when people walked, the ground was like a treda-mill for each person. Essentially, I thought each person stayed still, and the earth moved! After some careful thought, I realised that not everyone could be achieving this at the same time...!!
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- I used to think that when you moved, you SWITCHED houses with the person who moved out.— Sheippe
- I used to believe that anonymous was a person, and I thought, "Gee, this person writes a LOT of poems!"— Katie Albano
- I used to believe that when you moved houses, you traded homes with the person whose house you're moving into.Anon
- I used to believe that Alexander Graham Bell was not just one person. I thought that they were three people!— J.D.
- The first time I saw a black person (I was about 3), I thought he was made of chocolate.— Ronne