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This reminds me of turning a sphere inside out.
I love weird theoretical stuff like this that seems to have no practical, real world applications.
The unknot is like the knot-theoretic equivalent of 1. Not the most exciting number but hardly useless.
My very limited understanding of knot theory tells me it should be more like the knot-theoretic equivalent if 0, as it's the additive identity.