A lot of people jump to the conclusion that I don’t like children because I don’t have any of my own. This is far from the truth. I love kids; I just don’t want them around all the time. I’m pretty selfish and that doesn’t work all that well when you have children. I enjoy spending time with other people’s children though and I had a chance to do that yesterday. I really enjoy trying to educate kids about anything that I know. Sometimes I accidently educate them about things their parents would rather that I didn’t. This doesn’t happen too often though, thank goodness.
Last night, after my unfortunate incident of teaching an 8 year old how to open a bottle of wine, I moved on to gravity and its key role in creating the orbits of celestial bodies. I talked a bit about inertia and how the gravitational pull of the larger body pulls the satellite back along an elliptical path. My young student then informed me that all of the planets in our solar system will eventually crash into the sun. He eloquently explained that we were all living in a “swirling toilet of death.” I decided that I could skip part of the lesson about the curvature of space. He obviously already completely understood this concept.
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