Robert Matthews, a physicist at Aston University in Birmingham, found that the headphones of you music player could get entangled in more than 120 different knots. Through experiments, the Briton-based researcher has calculated how to prevent entanglement of the headphone cord in your pocket or at least significantly reduce it.
Matthew invented "cable theory," based on the notorious Murphy's Law, which would sound like this: "If the cable can get tangled, it'll get tangled." The physicist assumed that disobedient cables could be restricted by a simple loop that could prevent more complicated entanglement. To test this hypothesis, Matthews attracted local students who conducted about 12,000 handsets with a cable length of 55 to 183 centimeters.
The British Daily Mail notes that this data can be of benefit not only to music lovers. It could be of interest in biochemists exploring DNA whose spiral molecule may "self-interlock". Based on his research, Matthews also suggests that nature can form such DNA loops to reduce these risks. - Source
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Clearly you know nothing about cables! There are magical cable pixies that always make sure your cables tangle, regardless of what you try.
I can see at least three vulnerabilities that these pixies can exploit!
Are they at all related the the Gremlins that tampered with and destroyed fighter planes? Maybe they can explain my guitar cables always making a cable orgy regardless of how separately I coil them :p
a physicist did tons of research and decided ... "yeah this piece of plastic we used for decades on these things.... use two"
Awesome! Now I need a strategy for fishing line...Oh Dr. Maaaaaatthews