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The Mala Knot Lab
The Mala Knot Lab is a mathematical toy built around one fact: 108 = 4 × 27 is the only way to split 108 into two parts with no common factor, so 108 beads can be threaded on a single closed torus knot in exactly one way. Bend the thread, slide the beads, join them into shapes that survive any bending, and run a textbook one-particle quantum wave over the bead network. It makes no claim about consciousness, the brain, or the meaning of the mala; those questions live elsewhere on this site, in a different column. Everything the lab shows can be checked by hand, and the findings page tells you how.
Take It With You
The knot as a model
- 108-meru.stl (0.8 MB)
The tiered Meru model from the first figure: a point, a square, nine triangles, 108 struts. For 3D printing
How It Could Lose
What would show this is wrong
Find a second way to write 108 as two coprime factors, both greater than 1 (there is none, by arithmetic). Show a bending of the thread that breaks a shape (it cannot; the addresses are topological). Run the replication protocol and get numbers that differ beyond the stated tolerances. Show that the square-qubit trace departs from cos²(φ/2)·sin²(2t). Find prior work that places the chord-27 coupling on a wound chain as a spatially local coupling; we would cite it and drop the “not in the literature” line. Compute the bead distances on the (4, 27) knot yourself and find a fat-torus geometry (tube above 0.2 of the ring) in which the bead-1-to-bead-55 transfer exceeds 0.1 under 1/d³ or 1/d⁶ couplings; we found none. Any of these would discredit the page and we would say so here.
Versions
v1 (Sept 23, 2026): thread, beads, shapes, show/hide, weave. v2: quantum wave mode (one particle over 108 beads; superposition, interference, measurement). v3: the square-qubit preset with a live probability trace against the textbook curve. v4: relative-phase slider for the dark-state test. v5: Couplings from distance, the one mode in which geometry enters the equations, with a Wound chain preset that shows the square’s transfer appear as the tube thins. All versions were built with an AI counterpart and tested live; the quantum results were replicated independently by a second AI system from the written protocol.