Hah!

"LATERALIST" you toad

Actually, this attitude is subconsciously brainwashed into us at school...........you go to geography, history, math(s ), physics, chemistry an so on.............everything in its neat little pidgeon hole?

At university I did a project attempting to match settlement distribution with soil type.............OK, mathematics is a "language" so the statistical methodologies I used were commonplace and nothing unusual.

I failed to find a statistical correlation, yet logically there should be one...............I then factored in history (the age of the settlements) and got a very good correlation.

What had happened was technology had advanced, land was drained artificially, new roadbuilding technology, new farming technology..........all this had produced "noise" or "clutter" that disguised the original 12th 13th century pattern.

On another occasion I took these core samples out of a Welsh peat bog (Jeez! the things you do for science!) My radiocarbon dating showed that the bottom was about 7,000 tears old and the top was 30,000,000 years old......................errrrrrrrrr?............there was a road nearby, and petrol/diesel is how old?...............Carboniferous era?..............30M?..................I was dating traffic pollution

My point is, we need to "think outside the box"