When you were a child did you imagine the limits of the physical world?

Question

Did anyone else try to imagine while their hand touched the wall, if their hand was in fact actually touching the wall at the microscopic boundary, or what that boundary looked like.

Or did you imagine the possibility of all consequences happening but in different universes? For example, every decision, thought, or action you could possibly take actually happens but in a different world or universe for every point in time?

I find that since I am a working adult, and an engineering grad student, I think of these things much less. Perhaps it is the childhood imagination that is so incredibly powerful in scientific discovery.

Answer 1

I did imagine these things and still do all the time.  The childhood imagination doesn't go away, it's still there, you just have to find the time to use it.

I guess if you don't use it for so long, it eventually goes away (maybe certain parts of your brain deteriorate without use), which is why most people in there 40's and 50's seem to have no imagination whatsoever, and aren't open to new ideas and aren't apt to question their opinions or beliefs.