The #HeavisideLayer ... something I've been ignorantly referring-to as 'The #HeavySideLair' for Decades Now (holding @CATSmusical to blame) | @EliotFoundation @Wikipedia @BingMaps

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'The Heaviside Layer' is mentioned in several songs of the musical CATS, but--to the Jellicle Cats--it's just 'that place where cats go for their afterlife' (like American pets' "farm upstate" or new Christians' image of "Heaven").

So I always thought it was 'a fantasy-land "Lair" that T.S. Eliot imagined cats going-to when their "Sides" got too "Heavy."' But I found out that it's actually a #Layer (among the Earth's |Atmosphere-Layers) discovered by a contemporary of Eliot's---Oliver #Heaviside.
... not ...i.e. not a Lair for cats with Heavy Sides ... LOL

What I show here is 'the group of words' that couch "those words" (below hyperlinked to my post about the 'Jellicle' musical) into your vocabulary ... deeper meanings that 'firm the foundations' upon which our lexicon stands ...
The name “Heaviside” is a Locational name built on ancient words that mean |Hefa's |Slope (of an estate east of |Biggar in |Lanarkshire, |Scotland). #Heavitree #Hefatriwe #Hevetre #Hevisydes #Heviside #Havesides #Hiviside #Heviseed #Heveside #Heavyside 
The word “Layer” is built on ancient words that mean "one who Lays bricks, -cement etc. (e.g. a |Mason)" (applied to 'a |Thickness of |Material "Laid" over-a Surface or -another Layer' with some influence from the culinary French for Binding). #LayerCake #Layered #Layer
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The Lyrics to 'the song I blame for making me think "the Heaviside Layer" was "the Heavy-Side Lair"' (mostly because they pronounced 'Layer' in one syllable) ...
Up, up, up, past the Russell Hotel, 
Up, up, up, past the Russell Hotel, 

Up, up, up, past the Russell Hotel, 
Up, up, up, past the Russell Hotel, 

Up, up, up, past the Jellicle Moon, 
Up, up, up, past the Jellicle Moon, 

The mystical divinity
round the cathedral rang "Vivat!"
I don't know that those words were actually in the published collection of poems, but they were in some of Eliot's notes on the early drafts of the poems ... 

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