Knot A slips more than knot B. Is this relation material-depended?

[xarax]

@Dan_Lehman post:29

(There are no apostrophes in X’s land of keystroke kraziness!)

Neither to Dan Lehman s stroke raze-ness !

@Dan_Lehman post:29

If one finds a material in which the thief knot works well, what is the point to decrying its use there --perhaps by urging further searching …-- where is suited?

The great knot tyer Dan Lehman solves all the knotting problems with/on one stroke ( guess where… :)). Find a material where ANY knot works well.
Well, I have to suggest a cure : Use Velcro, or chain ! So, we can forget anything age imposes on us, and be confident with the great knot, the overhand !

@Dan_Lehman post:25

@xarax post:13

The single most important factor is the structure, the geometry of the knot.

Hmmm, now X. becomes aware of material,

Thank you, materialistic wise man…You have corrected the idealistic fool, who thinks that things are ideas, made of thin quintessence…The world is not made by the shadows of things any more, but by the things themselves…

@Dan_Lehman post:25

… so much so as to ignore that I have pointed to one case where security was reversed.

You have pointed out NOTHING. ( Not even a shadow of a thing !)
You have not “pointed out” which is the knot A and which is the knot B, and which are the two materials, with which the relation is reversed. And I think I know why, but I do not know any cure for this…

@Dan_Lehman post:29

Xarax, you have gone gung-ho here (maybe “oauauao”, whatever that new utterance is, too) over something that is conjecture on your part, and not wise

You confuse someone been wise, with someone who does not make conjectures…because he is so fool he is afraid his name will not be written with golden letters on the suit he will wear in the afterlife, if his conjecture will happen to be disproved some day. I might be wrong, but I have all the evidence you have not - and I am not a coward to be afraid of making conjectures ! You can not disproof this conjecture, so I guess it is wise for you to keep trying, not to try to portrait me as a fool…again. I am fed up with oracles- be brave enough to make YOUR conjectures, state them in the simple, clear way I dare to, and stop oauaouing about me being wise or not…

@Dan_Lehman post:29

Here is a simple case …

Yes, this is different than your Knot-A & Knot-B scenario;

As a knot tyer, and a rational being which I hope you remain, that is an (evidently) true statement. As a lawyer, you should nt finish your speech with this !

@Dan_Lehman post:29

But we might come to --with improved, intelligent testing and demonstration thereof of knot behavior across materials-- see some structures as preferable where materials are very flexible, say, and other structures good in different cases (and be less likely to try to find some universally best structure).

Yes, true, we might come to such a conclusion - but we are not already there, are we ? Until then, I do not fear to suggest a conjecture, based on much experimental evidence, rational examination and common sense ! I am not afraid that there is a possibility that my conjecture will be falsified… On the contrary, I will be glad if that happens, and i pray it will happens during my short lifetime… ! That is how science proceeds, my dear Dan Lehman, not in the courts of (forums) law, not in the world of key or brain strokes, but in the real world of Nature. Till then, I will continue to try to find the best structure, the most secure and safe knot, and I suggest you do so, too - and you leave Velcro and chain to others.

P.S. Do not come again in the issue of flexible (elastic) material…I have said many times, again and again, that with materials that are elastic or easy flattened, it would be too easy to find exceptions to “my conjecture”.