Editing Naïve physics (section)

==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 [[scholasticism|scholastics]] in [[Western world|Western civilization]]. In the modern science of physics, they were gradually contradicted by the work of [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], and others. The idea of [[absolute simultaneity]] survived until 1905, when the [[Special relativity|special theory of relativity]] and its supporting experiments discredited it.