I LOVE my Son's mind!

So I am sitting down to dinner tonight...My guy is sipping his soy milk and munching on his Macaroni and Cheese and out popped another one of his little ''ideas" He looks at me and says:

"You know Mom the Earth 'might' actually be flat"

And I say "Well in space it looks round, just look at the globe , it's a sphere, the Earth isn't flat"

And He says "Yeah but mom, think of it. " (He picks up a plain white piece of paper from the new paper he just got) "Think of it mom....Look at this piece of paper.........(He shows me the surface)

'"It's flat right???.....OK now look at it side ways. The paper is made up of tiny particles. It's really bunches and bunches of atoms thick, even though it looks flat.....So now think about the Earth. Think about the trees and the sky scrapers. Say the sky scrapers are atoms, say the people are super strings. What about that? If everything is particles, if all things on the Earth were particles, then the Earth could actually be flat....I mean in the same way that the paper is flat."


Yeah these things come out of left field. Whoosh. This isn't the first time he brought this scale idea up though. About a year ago he asked me "Mom if Earth was an atom how big would the rivers be?"

I adore his mind. It fascinates me. He thinks about some interesting things.It makes for really great dinner conversation.