A 4-year-old asked if ghosts melt in the sun and these 13 replies are incredibly spirited
Small children have a wonderful way of viewing the world, with a curiosity and a delight in everything that adults have usually – sadly – abandoned. If you don’t believe this, check out these jokes written by children, which are hilariously bonkers. When writer Joe Randazzo shared a question posed by his 4-year-old child, it received a lot of replies, some more serious than you might think it deserved.
This was his question.
Can anyone answer my 4yo’s question: would the sun melt a ghost?
— Joe Randazzo (@Randazzoj) September 15, 2018
These were our absolutely favourite answers.
1.
What if it’s actually the opposite? Like if a ghost touches the Sun it absorbs all of its energy and matter which consequently kills all life on earth, causing 5B new ghost births resulting in ghost over population so it’s like the first thing you’re taught in ghost school
— Duke of Cucamonga (@CucamongaDuke) September 16, 2018
2.
Ghosts are meant to be non-corporeal and would therefore be unaffected by the natural laws of physics. Of course this assumes a kind of Mind/Body dualism as first preposed by DesCartes which has a real dilemma of causal relations. Good luck!
— Thomas R. Wood (@ModernWood) September 15, 2018
3.
I know how most people expect me to answer this, but in reality: The Sun would technically *vaporize* a ghost.
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) September 15, 2018
4.
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
5.
This is a really insightful question
If the sun CAN melt ghosts, then they’re just ordinary matter, which means they’re a potential natural resource we can exploit
If the sun CAN’T melt a ghost, then we’re all screwed
— Ron (@TechRonic9876) September 16, 2018
6.
Yes, because it has a sol
— Chad Ezard (@Drazezard) September 16, 2018
7.
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
8.
ghosts can only come out at night when the sun is turned off so it’s a moot point
— hot, weird, mess, commissions @pinned (@damnse1fly) September 15, 2018
9.
Sun only melts vampires and water melts witches. Ghosts are only melted by your sweet sweet dance moves.
— Drink Critically (@DrinkCritically) September 16, 2018
10.
In my experience 4yos already have answers, very good answers, to the questions they ask and they’ll happily share if you think to prompt them. They just ask adults these things as a kindness because they can see that our self worth is so deeply invested in Knowing Shit.
— PaprikaPink (@PaprikaPink) September 16, 2018
11.
the sun is physical and ghosts are metaphysical so ghosts are unaffected by the sun or other physical things that’s why ghosts can pass through walls also ghosts never die which is why they can haunt people in this realm forever i hope this makes your 4yo feel better
— Laura (@WeeLaura) September 16, 2018
12.
My daughter says no, because it’s not meltableish.
— Joe Kelly (@joeytwoties) September 16, 2018
13.
I always figured the sun would burn a ghost like it burns fog. https://t.co/yLNMFJH6df
— Nick Foles Fan Account (@Danp500) September 16, 2018
One Twitter user gave the absolute definitive answer, from personal experience.
Yes, this is why we cannot be astronauts https://t.co/ClkXAUJl36
— KevinIsAGhost (@KevinIsAGhost) September 16, 2018
Who are we to argue?
