# Veritasium YouTube video on knots and braiding

**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/veritasium-youtube-video-on-knots-and-braiding/5815
**Category:** Braiding
**Created:** [September 27, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/veritasium-youtube-video-on-knots-and-braiding/5815 "2023-09-27T09:42:16Z")
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### Author: ![jan](https://connect.oeglobal.org/user_avatar/connect.oeglobal.org/jan/32/630_2.png) [@jan](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/jan)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/veritasium-youtube-video-on-knots-and-braiding/5815/1 "2023-09-27T09:42:16Z")

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Dr. Derek Muller, an ex-Vancouverite, better known as [Veritasium](https://www.veritasium.com/) with a very cool YouTube [channel](https://www.youtube.com/veritasium), recently posted a fascinating video about knots. It also mentions _braiding_ and the spontaneous creation of knots:

> (position inside video: 30:32) Raymer and Smith also proposed a model for real world knot formation. A series of loops are first formed when a string is placed into a container. Then when it’s agitated, a free end of **the string gets woven up and down through the loops, braiding itself into them to form knots**. (…) So coiling up your wires is actually setting yourself up for failure because you’re forming a bunch of loops for a loose end to braid perfectly into a knot.

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