Untie An Impossible Knot With Math 🤔🪢 | Everyday Awesome

Are your headphones always getting tangled? Alex Dainis explains the science behind so-called “impossible” knots.

[I.amthatrealJuan]

I finally got how it works with this demo. It's so much clearer than the others which completely makes it look like magic.

[Qasrani]

Thank you for not using scissors, or topology message would have been cut short 😂

[danielwesterlund]

That's interesting, never thought of these kinds of puzzles with ropes or knots before.

[soapie]

its so interesting but im too slow to understand lol

[corajones]

i dont get it but its insanely awesome

[Grassmpl]

Explain the Alexander and Jones polynomials

[TylorAnderson-xloj]

So the circle string, recent video about actually sacred geometry in a mound site. Talking about a square and circle that share a diameter. I have a couple theories on the calculations, and astrological comprehension. Simple stuff, that circle stirng being a circle, but being possible to pull 4 corners to make it a square, allows for the trasative property to be applied to those shapes, maybe they literally used rope, or they made a people chain or something. Maybe they used artal projection to get a birds eye view. Also, the fact that the fibanocci spiral is found in the cosmos and earth objects, like the way the SUN flower has the same spiral, so those flower heads could be used as measurement tools. Also Im curious what sort of math concepts can be derived from fluid dynamics about outer dimensions. Fluid dynamics related to things like economies in a way that I bet there's loads of potential. Also mirror compounds? Goodness

[travv]

If we can write entire papers on spontaneous knotting we can invent untatanglable cables. And no I don't like airpods.

[n-bonapartisan]

I wanna learn how to make the knot, not untangle 😈