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		ngruhn on Oct 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Sp... I‘ve heard that knots only exist in 3 dimensions. In 2D you can’t entangle anything and in 4D+ you can always untangle everything.

madcaptenor on Oct 14, 2024 [–]

It's been a while since I studied any topology, but if I'm remembering correctly you can knot an (n-2)-dimensional surface in n-dimensions.

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