As parents, we love to extend our wisdom and knowledge of the world to our children.
However, our kids have creative minds and there are certain questions that leave us speechless.
Cue turning to strangers on the Internet to help us answer the hard ones.
This is what happened to Joe Randazzo when his four-year-old asked him whether the sun would melt a ghost.
Can anyone answer my 4yo’s question: would the sun melt a ghost?
— Joe Randazzo (@Randazzoj) September 15, 2018
Thankfully, Twitter never fails to deliver. Although we don't think Joe was expecting such a large response.
Users were quick to chime in some random, yet comical explanations.
Since ghosts are vapor under a thin cotton sheet, I imagine exposure to the sun would just cause them to expand, resulting in Big Ghost.
— The Chubby Cryptid (@chubbycryptid) September 15, 2018
Sun only melts vampires and water melts witches. Ghosts are only melted by your sweet sweet dance moves.
— Drink Critically (@DrinkCritically) September 16, 2018
Then there were the ones who got very technical and have us all a little bit baffled.
Melting is defined as transition between solid/liquid or liquid/gas phases. All matter in the universe is made of elements. If ghosts are made of matter, they are made of elements. All elements are gaseous on the sun (including iron!), therefore the sun could melt a ghost.
— Joe (@jwduris) September 15, 2018
Naturally, other parents posed the question to their children and family.
The replies are adorable, but it seems they've been left with more questions than conclusions.
Great question.
— (((Orchid))) (@OrchidNYC) September 16, 2018
My four year old says no, ghosts are made of different things in people's minds. So I said what if the sun can melt a person. She's now looking out the window, thinking.
Our 6 yo child says, “Yes, the sun can melt everything!”
— Εllen (@EllenWillert) September 16, 2018
Our 9 yo child says, “No, there’s no physical component, everything just goes through it.”
Aaaaand my 43 yo husband says, “Why is there a ghost on the sun?”
So, clearly we’ve just made this worse
Joe may have gotten an answer for his four-year-old, but he has opened a can of worms for others.
His tweet has racked up 1.7K retweets and 15K likes - and just in time for Halloween too.
