If shoelaces always come untied and headphone wires always get tangled, why don't they make shoelaces out of headphone wires and headphone wires out of shoelaces?
2026-05-07 08:52 UTC
Replies (16)
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@FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2026-05-07 09:34
Entropy always increases. There's one way for a cable to be untangled, and an incalculable amount of ways for it to be tangled. When letting it randomly change state it is very improbable for it to randomly end up in the untangled state. Same for shoelaces, there is but a few ways for the shoes to be properly knot, and a comparatively essentially infinite ways for them not to be. I know it's a joke, but I find this perspective fascinating.
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@Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2026-05-07 09:17
Most people only think that they know how to tie their shoes but they're doing the so-called "granny knot" which is why it unties itself. It could also just be a lack of imagination too: 
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@SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 2026-05-07 11:27
Holy shit, they've solved it!
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@unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-07 09:48
They do make headphone cables like that. Its those fabric sleeved, slightly stiff ones. Those dont get tangled.
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@Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-07 15:43
Have you tried putting your shoe laces in your pocket? That'll keep em tied
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@toofpic@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 09:11
All my life, I was tying the knot "wrong side up", so it was untying. I was checking out a videonon how to tie high boots the easiest way, and the problem was mentioned. Now nothing ever happens to them. It's hard to explain in details, so here's a quick check if your shoes are untying themselves. When you start tying, you hold two loops in your hands and cross them, putting one above the other, right? Well, this time, put them the other way around (left on right if it was right on left), and finish the same way you always did it. You will immediately feel that the knot is not slipping. This is because you also do the first simple knot in a certain way, and first and the main knot has to be different relative to each other
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@StillAlive@piefed.world 2026-05-07 10:12
Skill issue https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm
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@Dallimjp@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-08 06:43
You're probably tying your shoes wrong. The knot you want is a double slipped square knot. If you tie it that way it never comes undone.
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@notabot@piefed.social 2026-05-07 10:35
Now this is the big brain thinking I come to the fediverse for!
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@Robotunicorn@lemmy.world 2026-05-08 00:54
Some Michigan State students made untie resistant shoelaces! https://www.brce.shop/
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@remon@ani.social 2026-05-07 08:57
Do people really have that problem with shoelaces? I tied mine almost a year ago and they're holding up fine.
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@MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 10:15
#TeamVelcro
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@homes@piefed.world 2026-05-07 10:36
They tried that, and during the early 2000s, teenagers were hanging themselves with iPod headphone wires. That’s why Apple invented Bluetooth— so people like you could torture everyone else with existentialism ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
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@FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2026-05-07 09:37
this is why I love it!
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@zwerg@feddit.org 2026-05-07 10:09
Just as well that this is physics then!
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@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2026-05-07 12:53
Who bothers with wired headphones these days?