After my son, Elliot, made an observation that the air under the TV stand was cold I inquired more about this phenomenon from him.

Kevin (me): How does cold air get under the TV stand when there is a wall right there?

Elliot: A spider web trapped the water and it goes all the way into here.

Kevin: And then what happens?

Elliot: It went underneath the floor and then it went into that one over there (pointing to floor vent). If you turn the wheel the air won’t go out, so it went back over there , then it went into other walls and into the door and into the pipe.

Kevin: So the air does that?

Freya (my 3 year old daughter): And the bathtub?

Elliot: Yep, and the bathub. And to the fireplace too.

Kevin: So why is it cold under the TV if its in the walls?

Elliot:  hmm… yeah. I think a spiderweb just stick it there and then the air went into the holes in the spiderweb there.

Kevin: So the cold air is coming from the holes in the spider web?

Elliot: Yeah, then it goes up into the roof and into the fan too and into the light.

Freya: There’s no water there! But there is water underneath the floor!

Elliot: Because there is pipes.

Kevin: Why is there cold air on the floor and warm air above in the room?

Elliot: Because it was hot and sunny and cold there. The cold went down into our wet pipes. Its a square. Then it goes into the water pipes and into the sink and into the TV case.

Kevin: Interesting hypothesis.

Elliot: The air goes into the ground too and in the grass.

Freya: And the flowers will grow!

Elliot: It goes in the dirt.

Freya: No not into the dirt!

Elliot: It goes in the dirt too.

Kevin: So air seems to be everywhere right?

Elliot: Yeah.