Somehow I got this strange idea that if you held a piece of paper so that it's edge was facing a piece of glass, and pushed it fast enough it would actually travel through the glass without the glass breaking. I thought it was a phonomenon associated with time travel but later as I discovered that all material thigs were made up of atoms I figured that the paper was actually squeezing through the spaces in between the molecules. Actually none of my experiments to make the paper pass through the glass ever worked but I figured that it was because I couldn't move the paper fast enough.
A childhood belief about physics
others believed things like this
- I used to believe fax machines instantly teleported a piece of paper to who ever you wanted. Anon
- 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 used to believe that CD's were made of glass, until I learnt otherwise.Anon
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- when my friend was little, she used to eat paper, thinking it would make her read better.— hehehe
- i believe in the tooth fairy so much that i make paper bags for her!— Monster High girl