Part I · History · Paper 5 of 40
“Tait began cataloguing knots in order to enumerate candidate atoms. The atoms were wrong. The catalogue became a branch of topology still in use.”
Kelvin proposed that atoms are knotted vortex rings in a frictionless fluid. It failed for five identifiable reasons. Three of those reasons do not transfer to the Plenum proposed here, and two do. The paper states which, rather than treating the failure as undifferentiated.