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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1376144" data-attributes="member: 1656">Awesome!Reminds me of something really scary that happened to me a couple of years ago.When I was in high school, our third form (uh... 8th grade?) Physics teacher taught us the Pac-Man Theory of Electrons.  It's all about how electrons are Pac-Men who run around inside copper wires...In 6th form (11th grade), a different Physics teacher explained to us that electrons aren't really Pac-Men.But in 7th form, we had the original teacher again, and he told us not to pay any attention to the second teacher - electrons are Pac-Men, and he proceeded to use the Pac-Man Theory of Electrons to explain electromagnetism.A couple of years later, I was teaching some 6th and 7th grade extension classes in physics, and naturally I used the Pac-Man theory to explain electricity.  And it worked really well.  My mother teaches gifted preschool children, aged 2 to 4, and she occasionally teaches about electricity.  She'd seen the classes I'd taken using tPMToE, and she tried it with her munchkins... but naturally, none of the 2-4 year olds had any clue what Pac-Man was.But the scary thing was a couple of years ago, when she discovered that a couple of the parents of the 2-4 year olds didn't know what Pac-Man was.How can someone old enough to have children not remember Pac-Man!?-Hyp.</blockquote>