The Ig Nobel Prize-winning study about why strings get tangled got an appreciative nod in the Veritasium video about knots and knot theory. The mention moment comes at about 31:50 in the video: Of course the video is not not worth watching in its entirety: The 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to […]
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 […]
Dorian Raymer explains, in this video, his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research about how and why bunches of string will inevitably become tangled: