Well. Thank you very much to Shamangineer and Satyagraha for the links. Certainly a lot of information to corroborate and synthesize. S. M. Phillips' analysis of the Tree of Life from a geometrical standpoint is fascinating, and I have a lot of reading to do from his website and multiple others I've been finding around here. I do find myself with new questions and directions to pursue. Since the official discovery of natural occurrences of vortex knots, particularly in an optical medium, has anyone revisited the Morrison experiments disproving a static aether? With the inconsistency in the occurrence of the knots stated by the report posted above, might proximity to the earth play a role? As you say, the knot theory wouldn't allow for a continuum in size, with enforced quantification into subatomic particles and structures being a necessary factor to explain current lines of experiments. However, with the somewhat recent experiments demonstrating 'splitting' an atom (I.e. Causing an atom to exist in two separate places for extended periods of time by exploiting it's miraculous ability to spin two directions simultaneously), would it be possible to extrapolate that the weirdness at a quantum level exudes into atomic and larger levels? Could the splitting observed be attributed to knots forming through the disturbance of the laser used to move the atom, or rather, as a side effect of it? The further one managed to break down matter in that conception, the closer it would become and act like data. This would seem to be an apt description of the quantum realms to my understanding, where the data is possibilities, and observation is the differentiation between event and theory. Detection of what you were looking for in the case of experiments performed looking for infintesimal particles would almost be a guarantee within such a system, as the mere act of watching for it creates information on it, and would bring it into being, albeit temporarily until the unstable knot collapsed. Certainly all food for thought.