When is a knot not a knot? • Take a piece of string. Tangle it, and thread it though itself, in any way you choose. Glue the ends together. You may well have created a KNOT. • Take a piece of string. Glue the ends together, tangle it, and thread it though itself, in any […]
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Raymer untangles string-tangling for you
Dorian Raymer explains, in this video, his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research about how and why bunches of string will inevitably become tangled: