Summary
While formal physics education typically begins in high school or college, humans develop sophisticated intuitions about the physical world long before entering a classroom. Even young children can predict whether a tower of blocks will fall over, how much weight a tree branch can support, or how far a ball will roll if kicked. This intuition about the physical world is a core part of human intelligence, contributing to our everyday commonsense knowledge, but it is still quite difficult to engineer systems that match the robustness and performance of this kind of human intelligence and that wo