{"id":3923208,"date":"2025-12-16T01:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-hidden-physics-of-knot-formation-in-fluids\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:03:14","slug":"the-hidden-physics-of-knot-formation-in-fluids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-hidden-physics-of-knot-formation-in-fluids\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden physics of knot formation in fluids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Knots are everywhere\u2014from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses\u2014but how an isolated filament can knot itself without collisions or external agitation has remained a longstanding puzzle in soft-matter physics.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-12-hidden-physics-formation-fluids.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knots are everywhere\u2014from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses\u2014but how an isolated filament can knot itself without collisions or external agitation has remained a longstanding puzzle in soft-matter physics. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}