Ah I see what you mean. You see, you did explain it to me like I’m 5.
So the topology is more like the orderly fashion the vertices are in. It’s like what molecules are to an element. H2o is H2o, it’s two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, and yet you can have water in a glass and it will take the shape of the container. The shape will change but it’s still H2o.
