The cinquefoil, a prime knot (one which can’t be built from smaller knots) is, in today’s image, set into a starry background as if it were a series of gaseous filaments in space. The idea was conceived by the news of an experiment at the other ‘end’ of the material scale - that scientists at the University of Edinburgh have woven 160 atoms into a single molecule in the shape of the cinquefoil. You can read about it at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21132-single-molecule-ties-itself-into-famous-knot.html
And I take this as an opportunity to remind us in just three lines of the greatness of our God
In the cosmic vastness,
and in the microscopically small,
