Ariel Amir et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(6), 1850-1855 (2012-02-09)
Slow relaxation occurs in many physical and biological systems. "Creep" is an example from everyday life. When stretching a rubber band, for example, the recovery to its equilibrium length is not, as one might think, exponential: The relaxation is slow