As we all know, children ask many questions about the world and everything around us: Why is it raining? Why is the sea salty? Why is the moon up in the sky sometimes during daytime? How do planes fly without flapping their wings?

A few weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, announced that he was changing his company’s name to Meta. The move was to boldly point to the future as he envisions it, a “metaverse,” instead of just social media “platforms,” as Facebook and Instagram are.