Why ?

Why are we called humans ?
Why is the earth the earth and not mars ?
Why is an electron negative in nature...

This and various other very delightful , off-the-cuff ,deep questions were some that struck me during the course of a physical chemistry lecture today , being taken by Mr.Chandramouly.

Let me tell you about Mr.Chandramouly.For starters , he isn't one of your conventional.Eg.Say someone(an yes that someone could be me)was sleeping in his class.For a normal teacher , this would elicit a response like "GO AND WASH YOUR FACE!" to "IS THIS WHAT YOU COME HERE FOR?" and the occasional inevitable "GET OUT OF MY CLASS!"But Mr.C would probably let you sleep for a while and then wake you up at a point and say " This point is important why don' you listen to it and go back to sleep ?"

Enough about Mr.C then , back to the class.Well in this class , we had just started chemical bonding and as it always is when it gets atomic , there was a lot of doubt as to how it all started, why a lot of stuff happens etc. etc. One of the questions Mr.C asked is....why do electrons revolve around the nucleus...to this one of our more studios pupils , Mr.A.Thrupati answered" Sir...(something about quantum mechanics)..." It was at this point that it was the Mr.A.T.'s turn to be shocked...Mr.C asked him...to his face...do the electrons know about quantum mechanics ?..

See...thats the point where you'll laugh...end of story...