The hashtag makes clear that this was a reference to the show Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which isn't something I watch regularly. It seems that in last week's episode, a particular magic sound ...

It is pointed out that classical statistical mechanics is a field theory with Liouville's equation as its field equation. The statistical mixing of a one-dimensional oscillator is examined and a ...

Imagine plucking a guitar string. It vibrates, the sound lingers, and then fades away as the energy drains into the air. Now bring this scene down to the scale of an atom. Can an atom vibrate in the ...