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Now scoffing and mocking and jeering will start: what an anachronistic problem, now, when the world is getting wireless? it's a sheer waste of time and energy good for tangled minds and meshed brains. Well, it's not a waste of time and energy, not at all. Because it's not true that the wireless world will be less tangled than the wired one. Besides cables and wires we have lines (and links), ropes, strings, stripes and ribbons, paths and tracks, threads, chains, and plenty of other wire-and-cable-like things, matters, affairs, phenomena... And we also have non-wires and non-cables... So, the issue is of unprecedented importance and it should be neither discarded nor postponed. But why not? Cables and wires will keep tangling, always, this can be prevented in no way. Has it any sense to gather knowledge which can not be used for any practical purposes? Right now, at the very beginning, it should be emphasized that we never know what for and when knowledge will or will not be used. Besides, some people like to know, while the others don't. It's quite easy to answer the question why some people like to know while the others do not, but we won't take this problem under consideration here. Because here, in this very case, the situation is different. Everybody, or almost everybody (a lousy scoundrel who doesn't want to know what all the others do can be found everywhere) wants to know whether cables tangle themselves or are being tangled. This question makes our blood pressure higher, takes the sleep away, doesn't let us think logically. Therefore the problem should be studied extremely carefully, with no emotions. And systematically. And chaotically as well. So, it looks like the point is sort of theory of tangling. It would be nice to define, more or less, its area. Area of studies Why and what for Do cables
get tangled or are being
tangled? A new brown huge suitcase A room full of cables An old brown small suitcase once again Methodology Tangling and entropy The types of entanglements How to avoid tangling Situations A history of a stitching What is the difference between cables and other long things and beings? <<< |