User blog comment:RobinCarr/ Alternative Science and Engineering that might originate in the Prehistoric TV World/@comment-5477177-20120916022809

Whither Tiny North? One recently established field of scientific pursuit in Tiny Villages is Tiny Geography.

Not too long ago, in a recent brief published note [citation needed], Professor Geo Fourstone suggested that there were more directions than south-east and south-west and completely south in her Tiny Village. This suggestion caused a great uproar in the village and she was briefly forced to hide from angry mobs inside the Great Lighthouse, where the inspiration for this heresy arose.

When other villagers ascended the Lighthouse to bring the Professor coffee and scones they wondered if they could share her opinion, or at least if they should ask other villagers to allow her to speak freely about unknown and undiscovered areas. These became the first students of the novel pursuit. When a consensus was finally reached in the Tiny Village the matter was declared a valid field of study. Simple treatises were circulated in the village Nursery and soon the Professor's village became known to other villages as a center of free and open thinking, at least with respect to this new field - which was then named Tiny Geography in her honor. The village thrived with the new taxes from the Great Lighthouse tours which followed the influx of tiny tourists.

The foundation of this science is the observation that the parcel of land upon which the Magic Rock sits has four sides although only two are approachable at any one time. Therefore the Magic Rock is also unique in this repect among all Tiny Village entities. Speculations raised questions about the significance of this simple discovery. Some great thinkers propose that there are additional dimensions in which other parts of the village reside, a few even suppose that the village is mirrored in these new quarters. One student has argued that there is only one true North, suggesting that it is a strong and free land. In some theories there are proposals to measure this direction, to quantify the strength of the fields and distances involved, even to portion it out to future generations.

Village elders cautioned Professor Fourstone and her students when the speculations appeared to get out of hand. It was pointed out to them that beginning a new field of study was an undertaking which sometimes required notice of limits - such as those imposed by the existence of other intellectual pursuits. Complaints had already been registered by the village Metaphysicians that the scientists were infringing upon Philosophical matters which they little understood. Bold students of Philosophy were already heard to cry that the newer students should back off - or else. Professor TwoStones was rumored to have meddled in some of the measurements of new students, causing their experimental results to be dismissed as mere reflections of South. In other voices chants of "No one cares about North" were sometimes heard amid the strains of village whistles. Some graffiti was observed but this was rapidly removed by senior villagers who were eager to keep the peace.

So it came to pass that the concept of North was eventually discussed openly. The new scientists hurried to hatch the latest notions with a bewildering pace and the new science was safely established in Tiny Village thinking. Professor OneStone reportedly was later heard to mutter that North might be the missing element in Fusion Theory; only time will tell.