Comment by whatshisface

3 days ago

It does have a name, it's called "coupling." A spring (to physicists all linkages are springs :-) ) couples a pair of train cars, and a coupling constant attaches massive fields to the higgs field.

Even capacitors and thermal models in solids are springs.

  • as an electrical engineer I think any other form of coupling as a capacitance, i.e. electric field and rarely as inductive coupling (magbetic field). funny world.