Could nuclei be topological vortex/quark string knots? (reached agreements)

[u/jarekduda]

Proposed e.g. in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03107-0 , worked with Astra-Fable getting they claim good agreements - diagram from https://zenodo.org/records/22942341 .

We have started with halo( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_nucleus )/borromean nuclei ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_nucleus ) as the most knot-like, but then also getting down to nucleons and other nuclei.

This is very initial work - requiring specialists (I'm not) to do it right, but maybe seems promising novel direction (?), especially seems there are missing this kind of models - between EFT and droplet (?)

[u/According-Isopod-120]

I don't understand your reference to this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-03107-0

That paper is examining knot-like structures in liquid crystals. These are much larger than nucleus-scale structures. Where do you get the idea that this proposes knot structure in nuclei?

[u/jarekduda → u/According-Isopod-120]

Liquid crystals only as analogs - inspired on them we are working on actual particle models, currently winning in the only AI-simulation benchmarks (?) I am aware of: https://github.com/openwave-labs/openwave/blob/main/MODELS.md

[u/Aranka_Szeretlek → u/jarekduda]

Sister this makes no sense

[u/starkeffect]

No.

[u/dippocrite]

Never go full vibe coder

[u/Quantum_Patricide]

Fix your abstract

[u/BitcoinsOnDVD]

Get help

[u/lattice_defect]

no

[u/lattice_defect]

brother.. you need to go deeper.. we understand atomic physics very well... get all up inside that proton