Matthew's hypothesis

Matthew's brain sometimes astounds me.

Mike was watching some show on Discovery that mentioned that the moon is moving away from the earth at about 2.5 cm per year. Mike shared this tidbit with us during dinner one night. Matthew was interested in this and asked a few questions but then dropped the subject.

A few days later, once again at dinner, Matthew mentioned to us that he had been reading a book about black holes. He read that if something was caught in a black hole and it could move fast enough, then it could conceivably escape the black hole. So Matthew hypothesized that the moon must be orbiting faster than earth so that it's escaping our gravitational pull.

Although incorrect (the moon spins exactly once on its axis for every one revolution around Earth; forced to show the same face toward Earth for all eternity), his intellectual prowess astounded me. He listened to information, absorbed it, rolled it around in his noggin for awhile, added some theory to it, and spit it back out with reason.

He is destined for greatness, I am certain.