Quipucamayoc plays his strings.
Four-brane quipu, quantum dots.
Emergent, complex tapestry
Sound and color,
Fermion knots.
Atomic jig at boson’s push
Molecules from atom dance.
Knotted cosmic symmetry,
Photon sway,
Quantum chance.
Quipu pattern mystery,
Entangled meaning, knots as quill,
Quipucamayoc, unperturbed
Emerges wonder,
Vibrates still.
If strings can information hold,
With beads on wire
Or knots on string.
Might abacus and quipu mold
Worlds of meaning?
Dreams unfold?
If strings can information bear,
In subatomic
Quantum realms.
Might quarks and other discrete fare
Be one-dimension
Knowledge dare?
Quipu were a knotted-string knowledge management system the Inca used to conveniently store data. For background see here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chuckmetz_reading-the-strings-and-knots-that-keep-the-activity-6887838438129762304-bfiJ
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