You know how you can put your headphones on the table, turn away for two seconds, and when you look back they're a tangled mess? You put them in your bag, walk two blocks, and when you pull them out again they're one big knot?
Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith of UCSD studied the physics of random knotting. Moral of the story? Any kind of tumbling or turning = tangles. And there's nothing you can do about it.
(Still doesn't explain the mystery of the tabletop, though. Music-hating gnomes, probably.)
(via bookforum, photo credit Raymer and Smith)
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