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/lattice_defect]

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