Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Knot theory and the dynamics of Walmart shopping

Knots are crossings on a plane from a closed curve.  In Walmart, knots are crossing of customer streams among the shelves.

Walmart checkout counters are kept active as needed to increase the resolution of the shopping carts so more may get into checkout before collisions become unsustainable. The checkout manager runs an optimally congested structured queue, a Huffman encoding tree. The structured queue can 'adjust' the amount of kinetic energy among the shelves.

We have, essentially, three coloring queues, customers, clerks, and external tax collector to represent N uncertainty. Customers and clerks have emissions, they both are in the shelf space, one as spin one as charge. The magnetic is the county tax collector.

Lord Kelvin was right.

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