Knot-dominated era (IMAGE)

International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (SKCM2)

Knot-dominated era

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The model suggests a brief “knot-dominated era,” when these tangled energy fields outweighed everything else, a scenario that could be probed through gravitational-wave signals.

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Muneto Nitta/Hiroshima University

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