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As Internet users we all understand the expression "going down a rabbit hole", which comes from the much loved book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland " Alice: "Down down down - would the fall never come to an end?
I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time", said Alice.
The book famously begins when the main character, Alice follows a white rabbit underground, and finds herself going deeper and deeper into a strange World - somewhere in which normal social rules and even the laws of physics are suspended.
The author of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, was really called Charles Dodgson, a professor of mathematics, specialising in geometry and logic.
As Dodgson, he was a conservative mathematician who lived in a stable world of proof and logic.
A world of rationality where parallel lines could never meet.
As Lewis Carroll, he stepped across those boundaries.
At first glance it appears that with Alice in Wonderland, he created one of the most illogical books ever written.
But this is not the case.
