In an MRI machine, a powerful magnetic field causes protons in the body to line up like violin strings under tension, then a pulse of energy plucks those «strings,» making them hum. (discovermagazine.com)
Hopkins piles up a dazzling assemblage of images to fix our attention on this sense of rightness, of wholeness that comes together when we realize the utter congruence between what a thing is and what it does: kingfisher, dragonfly, a stone tumbling into a well, a plucked violin string, the clapper of a bell sounding — what happens and the way it happens are seamless. (religion-online.org)
Mahmoud and Chulahwat's work is built on the principle that a community — be it a town, city or suburb — responds to a disaster very much like a swinging pendulum or vibrating violin string responds to a force. (sciencedaily.com)