Before revision: Examples Some examples of naïve physics include commonly understood, intuitive, or everyday-observed rules of nature: What goes up must come down A dropped object falls straight down A solid object cannot pass through another solid object A vacuum sucks things towards it An object is either at rest or moving, in an absolute sense Two events are either simultaneous or they are not Many of these and similar ideas formed the basis for the first works in formulating and systematizing physics by Aristotle and the medieval scholastics in Western civilization.
After revision: They can neither talk nor walk, but babies already have a grasp of the physics of liquids URLExamples Some examples of naïve physics include commonly understood, intuitive, or everyday-observed rules of nature: What goes up must come down A dropped object falls straight down A solid object cannot pass through another solid object A vacuum sucks things towards it An object is either at rest or moving, in an absolute sense Two events are either simultaneous or they are not Many of these and similar ideas formed the basis for the first works in formulating and systematizing physics by Aristotle and the medieval scholastics in Western civilization.