The circumstances are all rather tenuous. In both cases we can assume that the tree trunk will be able to roll down the hill unhindered by bothersome limbs. Two: It's a rotted tree, an old dead tree who's limbs are weak and willing to snap off easily. One: The tree is so big, and it's branches so puny, that they snap off as the tree hit's the ground and begins rolling. In order to do away with the limbs problem we have two options: Something that lumberjacks are probably thankful for. The trees limbs would easily prevent a tree from rolling down a hill. Trees have limbs, that ought to ruin our party in a hurry. Since these other trees might impede it's progress down the hill, let's assume it fell in a clearing or near the edge of a forest.Īlright, we have a fallen tree. Well, it's most likely in the midst of other trees, and it wouldn't go very far after running up against it's neighbors. Although primitive man (how primitive are we talking about here?) may have had little reason to fell a tree, they are often felled by lightning and storms. For that matter, if a tree trunk rolls down a hill in a forest and no one sees it.įirst of all it must be a fallen tree. Not that I think it couldn't happen mind you, I just doubt that it's all that common. I've spent many hours hiking through the woods, and I've never seen anything remotely resembling such a scene. How often does one see a tree trunk rolling down a hill? I'd wager that the occurrences are extremely rare. Well, I thought to myself, that seems a bit preposterous. The wheel came to be when primitive man saw a tree trunk rolling down a hill.
This article/theory went something like this. Eventually I came across a small article wherein the leading theory regarding the origins of the wheel were revealed. My latest copy of Discover(tm) magazine arrived in the mail, and I started reading it. I was living in West Virginia at the time, and the mountains and valleys of the Shennandoah Valley were firmly in the grip of old man winter. One such idea got into my head sometime in the later half of the 90's. Given a computer, a little HTML, and the Internet, I can propagate my preposterous postulations from this small corner of the world. Spreading my rhetoric far and wide is extremely easy. I used to just bother everyone I knew in a physical sense, now I'm capable of wreaking much greater havoc. Since I have a web page, proliferating my crazy ideas is rather easy. Sometimes I feel compelled to espouse my hair-brained ideas with others.
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