When It Took 5000 Years For Us To Understand How A Falling Object Falls

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When It Took 5000 Years For Us To Understand How A Falling Object Falls

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Humanity's journey from "heavier objects fall faster" to Newton's laws was basically a 5,000-year facepalm moment. The meme perfectly captures our collective intuitive physics—where we think turning left creates a magical force pushing right, or that hockey pucks need constant pushing to keep moving.

My favorite is "WTF is a parabola?" because that's exactly how most people react to projectile motion. And let's not forget the elevator jumping myth that refuses to die despite basic conservation laws screaming "THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS!"

Meanwhile, physicists are in the corner quietly sobbing into their coffee mugs. Five millennia to figure out F=ma, and we still can't explain to Aunt Karen why her crystals don't actually "absorb negative energy."

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