My science teacher dad used to talk about ‘kiddy science’ - the ‘science’ we learned as kids. It made amusing cartoons (character when landing on a trampoline will always bounce back higher than when they started) and a simplistic understanding of things. However, one must be careful not to fall into the trap of not examining these beliefs as we get older.
One such belief is around how tree roots behave under the ground. Most folks, when drawing a tree with roots, will end up with the roots mirroring the tree top, and ending at the drip line, where the
