Infinite Whitehead Tangle

This never-ending knot, animated by Kenneth Baker, was made by concatenating a sequence of smaller tangles that look like this:

A quarter-turn is applied when passing from one copy of this tangle to the next in the infinite sequence.  Here’s another view:

Sketches of Topology is an amazing blog for visuals like these, and I will probably crib from it frequently.

If you’re having knot problems I feel bad for you son.

I got 99 dimensions, which honestly is 95 more than what you would need to unknot anything.