The resonance

Strike one tuning fork, and its twin across the room answers.

Resonance is what happens when one vibrating system sets another vibrating at the same natural frequency: no touch, no wire. Bridges have collapsed from it. Opera singers shatter glass with it. And nervous systems do a version of it every time a calm voice slows a racing heart.

These references cover both sides: the mechanical physics of resonance, and the human research on how feelings spread between bodies.

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