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  2. Metastability - Wikipedia

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    The metastability of silica glass, for example, is characterised by lifetimes on the order of 10 98 years [4] (as compared with the lifetime of the universe, which is thought to be around 1.3787 × 10 10 years). [5] Sandpiles are one system which can exhibit metastability if a steep slope or tunnel is present. Sand grains form a pile due to ...

  3. Metastability in the brain - Wikipedia

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    Metastability is basically a theory of how global integrative and local segregative tendencies coexist in the brain. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The Operational Architectonics is centered on the fact that in the metastable regime of brain functioning, the individual parts of the brain exhibit tendencies to function autonomously at the same time as they ...

  4. False vacuum - Wikipedia

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    A vacuum is defined as a space with as little energy in it as possible. Despite the name, the vacuum still has quantum fields.A true vacuum is stable because it is at a global minimum of energy, and is commonly assumed to coincide with the physical vacuum state we live in.

  5. Nuclear isomer - Wikipedia

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    A nuclear isomer is a metastable state of an atomic nucleus, in which one or more nucleons (protons or neutrons) occupy excited state levels (higher energy levels). ). "Metastable" describes nuclei whose excited states have half-lives 100 to 1000 times longer than the half-lives of the excited nuclear states that decay with a "prompt" half life (ordinarily on the order of 10

  6. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  7. Metastability (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    A simple example of metastability can be found in an SR NOR latch, when both Set and Reset inputs are true (R=1 and S=1) and then both transition to false (R=0 and S=0) at about the same time. Both outputs Q and Q are initially held at 0 by the simultaneous Set and Reset inputs.

  8. Buridan's ass - Wikipedia

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    The paradox predates Buridan; it dates to antiquity, being found in Aristotle's On the Heavens. [4] Aristotle, in ridiculing the Sophist idea that the Earth is stationary simply because it is spherical and any forces on it must be equal in all directions, says that is as ridiculous as saying that [4]

  9. List of types of equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    Static equilibrium (economics), the intersection of supply and demand in any market; Sunspot equilibrium, an economic equilibrium in which non-fundamental factors affect prices or quantities; Underemployment equilibrium, a situation in Keynesian economics with a persistent shortfall relative to full employment and potential output