New study shows nanoscale pendulum coupling
Date | 2nd, Jul 2019 |
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Source | Phys.org - Scientific News Websites |
DESCRIPTION
In 1665, Lord Christiaan Huygens found that two pendulum clocks, hung in the same wooden structure, oscillated spontaneously and perfectly in line but in opposite directions: the clocks oscillated in anti-phase. Since then, synchronization of coupled oscillators in nature has been described at several scales: from heart cells to bacteria, neural networks and even in binary star systems -spontaneously synchronized.