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* [[Alternate History]]: Invoked in his January 25, 2022 video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5GpFnRMEQ How A Spectacular Piece Of Pedantry Created An International Enclave]'', when he speculates what the Spanish enclave of Llivia would have been like in a world where the 1659 [[w:Treaty of the Pyrenees|Treaty of the Pyrenees]] between France and Spain hadn't had a certain small loophole.
* [[Arlen Theory]]: Invoked in his video for ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4zLFfN9dkM The Least Used Railway Station in France]''. After spending two minutes over a hiking montage explaining how he determined which rail station in France served the fewest passengers and why he wasn't perfectly certain of his results, he ends by saying the best way he knew of to get the indisputable right answer would be to post the video and wait two minutes for an angry comment to appear correcting his conclusions.
* [[Arlen Theory]]: Invoked in his video for ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4zLFfN9dkM The Least Used Railway Station in France]''. After spending two minutes over a hiking montage explaining how he determined which rail station in France served the fewest passengers and why he wasn't perfectly certain of his results, he ends by saying the best way he knew of to get the indisputable right answer would be to post the video and wait two minutes for an angry comment to appear correcting his conclusions.
* [[Applied Mathematics]]: In ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1je2r4_aj0 The Disused Railway Where They Tested Rocket Trains]'' Tim describes the idea behind the 1970s-vintage French Aerotrain as "let's take an aeroplane, a racing car, a train and a hovercraft, mix them together, and see what happens" -- with a handy diagram depicting icons of each vehicle type being added together.
* [[Applied Mathematics]]: In ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1je2r4_aj0 The Disused Railway Where They Tested Rocket Trains]'' Tim describes the idea behind the 1970s-vintage French Aerotrain as "let's take an aeroplane, a racing car, a train and a hovercraft, mix them together, and see what happens" -- with a handy diagram depicting icons of each vehicle type being added together.