Tim Queeney

Yeah.

Hi, guys.

Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, it's a bold claim, but, you know, that's why you have to buy the book and read it.

It backs it up.

Well, that's a good question, and people have asked me how you define rope.

But for this book, I defined rope in a very broad sense from everything down from cordage, which is thin, small rope, or twine, or whatever you want to call it, up to heavy-duty wire rope made of metal.

So it's all rope as far as I'm concerned, and that's sort of how I went in.

But basically, rope is twisted fibers that are then used to accomplish work.

Well, of course, rope, as we've already just talked about, is made up of fibers or little strands of fiber.

And if you want to talk about it in sort of a thematic way, each one of those individual fibers can't do much on its own.

But if you twist them all together, now you have a tool that's immensely useful.

And it's sort of like the way a single person can't do all that much on their own.

But people working together in groups can accomplish great things.

And they often accomplish those great things down through history using rope.

It's a combination of friction, especially with fibers.

It's a combination of friction, twist,

and something you could call the helix effect.

The friction, of course, is just the individual fibers, as they're twisted together, they're rubbing up against each other and engaging those little nooks and crannies of the fiber, or engaging with other nooks and crannies on other fibers, and so there's that friction that's stopping it, and a certain amount of physical locking in that's going on that's stopping them from sliding past each other.

But then you twist it, and by twisting them, you're re-engaging those fibers in a new way,