¶ Child Pushes Spoon Off Edge of Table
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When a little child pushes a spoon to the edge of the table and it falls off and the parents pick it up and put it back. And then the child does it again. … And if after it does it about ten times, the parents say, ‘Maybe I’ve got a dumb child here.’ But the child is so normal to Universe that if he did this out in space the spoon would just stay where he put it. It wouldn’t fall off at all. This child has a very healthy surprise at this phenomenon going on. Nothing is quite so prominent in a child’s life. His father is not always around but gravity is always there. And every time he tries to stand up-- Boom! Down he goes again! Everything keeps going this way. Now I find that because our Earth is so big we don’t seem to see this thing being pulled toward that. Because the Earth’s mass is so very great and this little mass here (on the table) is so tiny. That’s the prominent one, so friction is dominant. But we don’t tend to see it, to experience this falling-in.
