{"id":3924145,"date":"2026-02-26T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/why-you-cant-tie-knots-in-four-dimensions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:05:01","slug":"why-you-cant-tie-knots-in-four-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/why-you-cant-tie-knots-in-four-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you can&#8217;t tie knots in four dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We all know we live in three-dimensional space. But what does it mean when people talk about four dimensions? Is it just a bigger kind of space? Is it &#8220;space-time,&#8221; the popular idea which emerged from Einstein&#8217;s theory of relativity?<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-dimensions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know we live in three-dimensional space. But what does it mean when people talk about four dimensions? Is it just a bigger kind of space? Is it &#8220;space-time,&#8221; the popular idea which emerged from Einstein&#8217;s theory of relativity? <\/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-3924145","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\/3924145","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=3924145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}