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Koshkin 12 hours ago

Somewhat counterintuitively, all knots are homeomorphic to each other.

xanderlewis 8 hours ago | parent [-]

If you regard two spaces being homeomorphic as meaning — roughly — that if you lived in either space you’d not notice a difference, it makes sense. To a one-dimensional being (that has no concept of curvature or length, since we’re talking about topology here), they’d all feel like living in a circle.