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The Gravity of Knots

Unravelling the Ties That Bind Our World

S K Webb

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J.F. Publishing
30 March 2026
Atomic & molecular physics
THE GRAVITY OF KNOTS

Unraveling the Ties That Bind Our World
You are not a self-made individual. You are a knot. And once you see the net, you cannot unsee it.

We live in a civilisation that worships the individual, the lone genius, the self-made success, the person who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps and built something from nothing. It is a compelling story. It is also, at every scale of reality, provably false.

From the quarks that refuse to exist in isolation to the mycorrhizal networks that connect every tree in a forest, from the microbiome that constitutes most of what you are by cell count to the global supply chains that deliver your morning coffee, the universe is not a collection of separate things. It is a web of relationships. You are not in the web. You are the web, briefly aware of itself.

The Gravity of Knots is a journey through that web, across physics, biology, history, and the texture of everyday life, that arrives at a fundamental reorientation of how we understand ourselves and the crises we face. Our epidemic loneliness, our political fragmentation, our environmental emergency: these are not separate problems. They are what connection mismanaged looks like at a civilisational scale.

But connection can also be tended wisely. It can be designed rather than merely endured. The same web that can imprison, in cults, in echo chambers, in surveillance states, in abusive relationships, can also sustain, empower, and transform. The question is not whether to be connected. That was settled by the physics before you were born. The question is what kind of knot to be.

""A rare book that leaves you unable to look at the world in the same way again. Electrifying in its range, wise in its conclusions, and urgently necessary.""
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Imprint:   J.F. Publishing
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 22mm
Weight:   476g
ISBN:   9798233157776
Pages:   414
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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