Classified knots: Researchers create optical framed knots to encode information

The history of scientific progress shows that building new abstractions for complex ideas are key to generating enough insight to tackle more complex problems.

Just as today we throw around Fourier representations as old hat (key technology in digital compression algorithms), I’m excited to see where complex temporal/spatial polarization representations abstracted to ‘knots’ leads us.

Paging cstross, your engrams are ready on this timeline.

(The Merchant Princes double trilogy features knots as informational keys to trigger world-walking.)

For a brief visual description of what a framed knot is, see: https://www.mustafahajij.com/index.php/2016/06/12/framed-kno...