I have a pile of electronics and wires from things I’ve taken apart over the years. Adapters and plugs, and cables for all sorts of things.
Any time I go near the pile invariably the wires are all tangled up.
Numerous times I have gone through the pile and wrapped up each cord individually so that it would not tangle with anything else.
Some of the wires stay wrapped, but some will eventually unravel and then start to tangle with other wires.
I figure at some point there is a limit to how tangled the wires will get, because they never seem to wrangle into a solid mass. So there must be some universal tangle constant to which wires will naturally tangle to, no more no less.
Given a pile of wires, they will tangle together to some natural pressure and then modulate between more tangling and less tangling so they stay tangled at or near the tangle constant.
I notice that wires never ever untangle themselves, but left to their own devices, they will naturally start to get wrapped up in each other.
This has been my experience, what do I know.
Despite all this, for some reason, my shoes always untie.
It would seem to make sense to make shoelaces out of wires and cables.