Carbon Dioxide and Sceulionics

Not long after first graduating from Trinity, a fellow Trinity graduate on the AnCO course we were all on posed the question "how could anyone tell if you were a science graduate ?", "easy" we said, all scientists know about Carbon Dioxide, some even know it as CO2 and some even know about the small figure 2, plant life can't exist without it. No one thought of asking the question, "what if everyone thought they knew about carbon dioxide and they were only just pretending ?", some would say it is sort of like a toxic loan, others would say lets lets drill a hole is the ground and pump it beneath impervious rock, others would say lets put a value on it and trade in it, others would say it is changing the earth's climate. But that was 25years ago and while there was less to do (19% unemployment) nobody went around inventing science. Alas I have given up on facts and I have decided to come up with a new theory, "Sceulionics". It took a bit of time to come up with a new word but with the help of Google, frionics, scionics (the SC for Shay Conway)already existed, finally I settled on sceulionics (school with a dublin accent, ionic to make it sound scientific). This is a theory on the development and transmission of ideas over time. We are all familiar with the concept of ideas passing forward in time, this theory postulates that ideas pass both forward and backwards through time.