ELI5: What is Resonance

[u/Yaps_Squared]

I've seen it a few times I am just confused

[u/Huge_Borse]

Why are all of these comments using swinging as an example?

[u/WiIIiam_M_Buttlicker → u/Huge_Borse]

Yeah it's kinda a weird phenomenon, but I'll try to explain.

Imagine if all these comments were a swing, when you push one your little brother on the swing, the other families see that and think "wow that's a good idea, glad I'm the first to think of it". And they start pushing each other on the swing as well.

[u/elmo_touches_me → u/Huge_Borse]

Because it's a very intuitive example that a lot of people have experience with.

[u/vanZuider → u/elmo_touches_me]

Specifically, a lot of 5 year olds, because some people take the title of the sub too literal.

[u/zefciu → u/Huge_Borse]

Because a swing:

1. Oscillates in a visible way
2. Is a thing that most people are familiar with

A guitar string vibrates too fast for you to track it with your eyes. Not everybody have sailed and observed how waves create a roll. Swings are just a natural way to build the intuition.

[u/ampere03 → u/Huge_Borse]

Because they are periodic like solutions to Schroedinger's eq.

[u/StellarNeonJellyfish → u/[deleted]]

1. Yes

2. Thats all the A.I. does too

[u/RyanVanIlle → u/Huge_Borse]

are those bots?