What is the State of Electron ?

Abhinav is preparing for NSO exam. I find NSO questions are very tough for his age and Why they are farming such a difficult things. at the age of 6, their brain itself is under development with lot of inputs from surroundings and self learning. Me and Priya got stuck for few questions and referred Google for the right answers. The another problem is lack of Science vocabulary which is slowing down the Abhinav pace. I have to blame NSO for their rush and more loading to Children. 

For some explanation, Abhinva paused me and asked below questions.

What is the state of Electron?

What  makes up Electron?

I was really shocked because i never crossed these questions in my life and i found his question is very fundamental and i even dont know it. I felt very shame. 

Google gave me few answers which i cant explain easily to Abhinav because it will become base for many questions. But i will try to tell him in easy way.

• Electron is subatomic & elementary particle which behave as particle and wave
•  "State" is not applicable to Subatomic particle
• A thermodynamic state (such as solid,liquid or gas)  is determined by combined statistical interaction of many particles. Individual Particle does not have well defined properties even the Temperature. Only collection of particles can have properties 
• A state is a property of the way the atoms are arranged, and a single electron cannot be arranged.
• Nobody knows what makes up electron

PS: It is been a month, i did not update the blog. Lazy disease has no medicine. 

Image Courtesy: Google.

Connecting the Dots

Abhinav is Fast thinker in connecting Dots across many events. I wonder how he remembers all the things and connects it. His neurons are at work faster than normal ( I guess :))

Event 1:

Last month We all watched Age of Adaline. It was nice Sci-fi and Fantasy Movie but bit slow screenplay. Abhinav got a glimpse of story and he wondered " How it is possible to stay young after lightning strike?". But we convinced him that it is just a fantasy movie; So there wont be any proof of existence. 

Three days before, when Abhinav Sneezed, Priya Said " theerkaaisu" ( தீர்க்கஆயிசு - தீர்க்கஆயிள்) for first sneeze, then "Markendaaisu" (மார்க்கெண்டஆயிசு). During Sneezing, Heart is stopped for a moment from its beating; People say " god bless you" in western countries. In Tamilnadu, it is used to say "Muruga" in most of the places and "தீர்க்கஆயிசு & மார்க்கெண்டஆயிசு" in certain places. Abhinav asked the story of Markendaya and Priya Explained the story of Markendaya. 

Abhinav quickly correlated Sage Markendaya and Age of Adaline. 

Event 2:

I used to take stories from Tamil Hindu website and share with Abhinav as a bed time stories.

I told one such a story about Squirrel a month before. Moral of the story is to learn the good things from parent and obedience with parent.

Story link here

Yesterday, After our play time at association ground, we were walking towards our house. We were discussing about obedience and the consequences if we dont follow it. It was very casual talk and Priya was insisting to follow Parent, Teacher...etc.

Abhinav quickly correlated Squirrel story with yesterday's talk. Even I forgot about the story I shared. He told that I knew the consequences of obedience failure. Dont worry, Iwont be that squirrel. 

It is amazing to see the correlation effect in children. 

Out of the Book Thinking by Abhinav

Abhinav is such a boy that he always think out of textbook and get low marks. We were happy that he is not part of herd. He proved in many occasions at home. But the problem is " he started showing in exams too".

Occasion 1:

Write words as per Pictures. One Woman who is physically fit and one Man who is physically unfit.

Picture	Textbook answer	Abhinav answer
Physically Fit Woman	Thin	Lean
Physically unfit man	Thick	Fat

English Literature madam gave wrong answer and asked Abhinav to follow exactly same as textbook.

Occasion 2:

Question and Answer

Why do we need a House?

Textbook answer:   We need a house for protection from Animals

Abhinav answer:    We need a House to Live

Madam gave wrong answer. Another friend of Abhinav wrote " We need a house to stay" which also termed as wrong answer.

Occasion 3:

Write Opposite words

Word	Textbook answer	Abhinav answer
Like	Dislike	Unlike
Little	More	Big

Madam gave wrong answer and asked strictly to follow textbook answer. 

Actually "Unlike" also right answer of opposite of "Like" provided Like is considered as preposition word. if you consider as verb, then "dislike" is right answer.

Actually "Big" also right answer of opposite of "Little". 

Certain School teachers are stopping the Students innovative mind. Actually they need to appreciate and encourage for "Out of Box thinking"