U of Chicago: Superstring theory has revolutionized speculation about the physical world by suggesting that strings play a pivotal role in the universe. Strings, however, always have explained or enriched our lives, from Theseus’s escape route from the Labyrinth, to kittens playing with balls of yarn, to the single hair that held the sword above Damocles, to the basic awfulness of string cheese, to the Old Norse tradition that one’s life is a thread woven into a tapestry of fate, to the beautiful sounds of the finely tuned strings of a violin, to the children’s game of cat’s cradle, to the concept of stringing someone along. Use the power of string to explain the biggest or the smallest phenomenon.
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Knots have played many important roles in history. From practical and routine roles as shoe string knots to aesthetic roles as ribbons or knot arts, knots had many uses. Knots have also kept extremely important chronicles of histories together in order of time...
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Knots have played many important roles in history. From practical and routine roles as shoe string knots to aesthetic roles as ribbons and knot art; knots have many uses...
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Knots have played many important roles in history. From practical and routine roles as shoe string knots to aesthetic roles as ribbons and knot art; knots have many uses...