Scientific concept / term · short entry
Monkey Mechanics
Also: Loosening · Reverse Loosening · Monkey Wrench · Monkey House
The science that became Ape-kind's foremost pursuit after The Great Doldrum; Loosening and Reverse Loosening are its most important ideas.
Monkey Mechanics is a science whose fourth principle is credited to Professor Andaulphus Berilibus Zaxamite. Rumps with high Rump Factors are trained in it.
Professor Andaulphus Berilibus Zaxamite is responsible for the fourth principle of Monkey Mechanics. In 1804, Zaxamite demonstrated that Bentworthe's proposed process for magnetic monopole generation violated the 4th principle of Monkey Mechanics, and was ipso facto physically impossible.
Chicken-magic was later touted by Chickens as a title granting their works superiority over Monkey Mechanics. Professor Zanzibar had attempted in his youth to synthesize monkey and chicken mechanics.
Origins§
Before The Great Doldrum, Ape-kind, the Monkeys, was the most powerful race in the known universe, and a race of planet-conquerors. The Doldrum broke that power, and recovery took millennia. When it came, the Monkeys did not go back to conquest; they turned to learning. Monkey Mechanics took shape in that long recovery, and became their foremost pursuit.
Loosening and Reverse Loosening§
Of the ideas of Monkey Mechanics, none matters more than Loosening and its counterpart, Reverse Loosening. Early forms of loosening were among the methods by which Ape-kind found its way out of the darkness of The Doldrum, and the two ideas have stood at the heart of the science ever since. Professor Zanzibar's publications include “A Treatise on Viscous Processes of Differential Loosening” and “Loosening as a Reverse Process of Reverse Loosening”. The archive does not set out what either idea means.
Terms§
On Apekind lists, beneath Monkey Mechanics: Monkey House, Wheels, Monkey Wrench, Loosening. Ape-kind devised scientific methods to lead them out of the darkness of The Great Doldrum, such as early forms of loosening. Zanzibar's publications include “A Treatise on Viscous Processes of Differential Loosening” and “Loosening as a Reverse Process of Reverse Loosening”.