science

When I was small I thought that when the sun is setting down, it goes right under the ground and comes out on the other side the next day.

My other belief was that in every grade, I had to pass an exam to move on to the next grade.

You know those Terms of Use messages that come up when you install a new program? I thought that if you didn't read the ENTIRE thing, somehow the people in the company would know and send the police to your house and arrest you. I'm still slightly worried every time I don't read it and just click Next...

there used to be a commercial on tv about a law firm, and there was a line in the commercial that said "if you have a phone, you have a lawyer" so one day i went to my mom and asked her who our lawyer was, and said we don't have a lawyer." and i said " but we have a telephone" i was so confused, i had though we got riped off, because every phone came with a lawyer.

When I was ten or so I believed that when you used a fax machine, it actually clipped up the page you sent into millions of little confetti pieces and sent them through the phone lines.

When my mother talked about using the fax machine and sending a fax, I assumed that the paper would actually roll up and zoom through the wires and come out at the reciever's machine! =)

well its was actully wen i was 10 or 11... sad

i believed that 666 was the devils phone number. and i tried dialing it it gave me that messaged like its unavalible. then i told my dad and he laughed

i used to belive that the world was spinning because a basketball player was spinning it on his finger and if someone stole it from him the world would forever be in a night or day

When I was in grade school I was convinced by another student that you could make a laser by placing a flashlight inside a drinking glass and angling it just the right way. I tried this at home and was delighted when I saw some light rays come out of the glass at weird angles. I thought for sure I had made my own homemade laser beam!

My older brother told me when I was 3 or 4 that the reason ships float is because they are so light. In fact, they are so light I could lift an ocean liner with my little finger. I figured out the truth by the time I became an adult.

When I was younger I was convinced that the computer and printer were operated my hundereds of little men (never women). They lived in the computer and would use stamps to put the letters on the screen. When you printed something the little men would run back and forth to the printer telling the little men in the printer what to write. The men in the printer would then write on the paper very carefully (they all had really good handwriting). I can't quite figure out why the men would use stamps on the computer screen but would write on the actual paper.

When I was about 5, my father was on the phone with someone and laughing quite a bit. Although I could only hear one side of the conversation, I had recently learned the secret to hearing both sides of it. So I climbed up onto his lap and put my ear firmly against his ear (the one opposite from his phone ear) and listened closely until he asked what I was doing. I explained that I was hoping the other person's words would go in out ear and out the other.

My mom told me that the earth was always spinning. This fasinated me, but the next morning when I woke up excited to see my back yard and front yard switched I was very disappointed. My mom had to explain to me that it was the whole earth that moved, not just the yard around the house.

I thought that if I could just get hold of a really small and sharp pair of scissors, I could cut up a piece of paper over and over, eventually finding out whether matter was infinitely divisible or made of atoms (my father claimed the latter was true, and at the time I thought this was really suspicious).

When I was young and called a friend on the phone, I thought the busy signal would eventually turn into ringing. I waited and waited but always lost my patience before the busy signal turned to ringing.

I don't think i'm the only one with this belief. I thought if u spun around in one direction long enough to get dizzy (e.g clockwise, or anti- cloc) Then if u turned back the same amount the other way you could kind of un-dizzy yourself. I'm not i scientist do it still makes a small bit of sense to me , i'm 17.

I used to believe that each people has their own perception of color, for example: I see color red as red, but when I was a kid I used to think that others may perceive different. I see red but they see other color, and we describe the same color because we are used to it since birth.

i used to think nods could be transmitted by telephone. my parents would put me on the phone with grandma, and she would ask me questions, and i would answer yes! by nodding.

When I was in grade school (I schooled in Canada), I held the belief that during Winter the world was cold because the world was covered in snow. As you could see manhole covers and vents that had melted snow around it, they were direct links to underground, my premise was that heat actually came through the center of the earth (remember those nifty schoolbooks with the picture of the core of molten hot metal) and snow was actually blocking the heat coming into the air. This was also confirmed by it not being cold in the house, as the floor of the house didn't have any snow on it.