Let’s Apply a Little Thought Here

“Object permanence” is a term developmental psychology used to mean the point at which infants, usually at the age of perhaps six months, come to understand that the things around them like bottles, toys, and people don’t disappear simply because they go out of range of sight, only to somehow reconstitute themselves later, when they return to the baby’s field of vision.

The idea that the candle shown at left “regenerates” itself is almost as infantile as the belief that Rover vanishes  when he leaves the room and then later comes back into being.

When they burn, the hydrocarbons in wax candles are transformed into CO2 and water, as heat is released. This process doesn’t build new candles.