Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than ...

Temperature as a game of marbles: The Boltzmann distribution states how many particles have which energy, and can be illustrated with the aid of spheres that are distributed in a hilly landscape. At ...

Explore the Collective Motion of Humans in mosh pits, revealing surprising parallels to gas particles and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Are humans that different from gas particles? Not ...