Hitches : Are they "knots", like bends ? If they are, where are their nubs ?

[SS369]

@X1 post:6

Thank you SS369. A brave reader !  :) 

@SS369 post:4

The “Neutral” parts are , imo, part of the knot. I don’t feel that these so called neutral parts are in fact neutral. They play an important role in those particular knots.

Sure they do ! However, I had to distinguish them from the segments of the “knot”, through which the tensile forces run.

@X1 post:8

I had to use this simple “thought experiment” in order to clarify what I had meant by this “non-functioning [neutral] elements” neologism - because any segment simply penetrating and/or interwoven within the knot s nub does affect its form, by its mere spatial presence within the knot, by the bulk of its body ( so, it makes a difference, regarding the shape and place of the functioning elements as well ). [The main line or the pole]…do alter the flow of the tensile forces within the functioning elements, although its presence is not necessary for the knot - i.e., if and while the knot is loaded…, it will remain knotted, even in their absence, albeit in a very different form.

I do not think that we can eliminate the compressive forces and leave just the tensile.

Even though the topology of the segments are the same, with or without the “neutral parts” they both are knots of potential, till they are employed. Or enjoyed.

SS