When I was 8 my elder brother told me that due to the spin of the Earth, if anyone faced exactly east they would fly off into space, when I questioned this he said very few people had ever done it because it was almost impossible to exactly face east.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- When I was 7 my brother told me that when the space of the computer runs out it will explode.— Sam
- When i was a kid i used to think that all ugly people were imported from space haha!!!!!— Abbey Jackman Mulligan
- I used to think that if I ate a Wunderbar chocolate bar, I could spin around and become Wonder Woman. — Miss Naive
- I used to believe the tv serie "Doctor Who" was a spin off from James Bond... (until I saw an episode)Anon
- when i was young i thought that a giant made the world slowly spin!— ~kassie~