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The image created by the eye is real and inverted. Many people are surprised to learn that the images we always see are inverted. The reason we do not notice this is that we know no other reality.

http://library.thinkquest.org/27066/theeye/nlstructure.html

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Hence the definition of invert in Merriam Websters online dictionary means only one thing:

AUSTRALIA IS ON TOP, and the Northern Hemisphere is NOT.

Invert:

1 a: to reverse in position, order, or relationship b: to subject to inversion
2 a: to turn inside out or upside down b: to turn inward

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But since North is up is your reality, we will let you live in your delusions.

Thanks for your insight into the language, Julie!

And thank you, Brian. I didn’t really have a point when I started the entry, but as I wrote it, the argument did seem more like those I read defending public school. Basically that it is the way it is and therefore it is right. : )

Up is tricky in the Old Testament. No matter what the starting point was ~ the Bible seems to always use the word up to signify traveling to Jerusalem. I think this is spiritual rather than directional ~

What a fun entry! I have enjoyed the comments ~

No up? Is there a difference between “north” and “up”? Just wondering. I guess (I am not Einstein) that if the universe does not stretch on for eternity, there would have to be some sort of “up”-direction.

I know this discussion is not crucial, but it certainly is mind-boggling.

According to popular legend, when the British laid down their arms at Yorktown, at the ceremony of surrender in 1781, the British regiments played the tune “The World Turned Upside Down.” Part of the song went like this:

“If grass ate oxen and horses rode men,
“The whole world would be turned upside down.”

Actually, I didn’t truly “take issue” with MacArthur’s map. I challeneged the challenge. I think Stan (above in comments) makes a good point, and Elisheva just reiterates what I said in the previous post: there is a physical dimension to north and south, and it is partly that dimension that constitutes “up.” Also, I did challenge your opinion on the sailors and the North Star and Paradise.

As always, a good post.