4-Year-Old Asks If The Sun Would Melt A Ghost, And Things Get Complicated

Kids have a habit of asking what seems a simple question, but is actually so unique you don’t know how to answer it.

This is what happened to Joe Randazzo, when his four-year-old asked him whether the sun would melt a ghost.

Rather than tackling the question alone, he turned to his followers on Twitter to see whether someone else could come up with a good enough answer.

Can anyone answer my 4yo’s question: would the sun melt a ghost?
— Joe Randazzo (@Randazzoj) September 15, 2018

What Randazzo probably didn’t expect was being inundated with tweets and thousands of replies to his child’s innocent question.

And the answers seemed to make things a little bit complicated.

There were the adorable answers:

My daughter says no, because it's not meltableish.
— Joe Kelly (@joeytwoties) September 16, 2018

The random ones:

Sun only melts vampires and water melts witches. Ghosts are only melted by your sweet sweet dance moves.
— Drink Critically (@DrinkCritically) September 16, 2018

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

And the seriously complex ones:

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

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

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

So all in all, we’re not entirely sure if the sun could melt a ghost...

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

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