  The DC Josephson effect is the flow of supercurrent across a weak link
between two superconductors with a different value of their order parameter,
the phase. We generalize this notion to any kind of spontaneous continuous
symmetry breaking. The quantity that flows between the two systems is
identified as the Noether current associated with the broken symmetry. The AC
Josephson effect is identified as the oscillations due to the energy difference
between the two systems caused by an imposed asymmetric chemical potential. As
an example of novel physics, a Josephson effect is predicted between two
crystalline solids, potentially measurable as a force periodic in the
separation distance.
