The Fission Theory: This theory proposes that the Moon was once part of the Earth and somehow separated from the Earth early in the history of the solar system.
When you actually use that class to make a THING, this is what you make. A method is a bit of code that can be called when needed (often as part of an class, but not always) Here's an example: I write a class called Ball. In my main code, I then write a=Ball.new, b=Ball.new, c=Ball.new.
A static method belongs to the class itself and a non-static (aka instance) method belongs to each object that is generated from that class. If your method does something that doesn't depend on the individual characteristics of its class, make it static (it will make the program's footprint smaller).