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.<\/p>\n
Any time I go near the pile invariably the wires are all tangled up.<\/p>\n
Numerous times I have gone through the pile and wrapped up each cord individually so that it would not tangle with anything else.<\/p>\n
Some of the wires stay wrapped, but some will eventually unravel and then start to tangle with other wires.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
This has been my experience, what do I know.<\/p>\n
Despite all this, for some reason, my shoes always untie.<\/p>\n
It would seem to make sense to make shoelaces out of wires and cables.<\/p>\n
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