Thus, the amplitude of composition fluctuations should grow continuously until a metastable equilibrium is reached with a preferential amplification of components of particular wavelengths.
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If such changes can be triggered to occur in a system in which they are not already occurring, it is said to be in a metastable equilibrium.
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:: Earnshaw's Theorem is really a corollary of the n-body problem, and levitation examples represent special cases with constraints on the objects to establish a metastable equilibrium; i . e . it holds stable for long enough on time frames humans care to stare at it, but it is not perfectly stable under long enough time frames .-- " 32 " 15 : 32, 12 February 2016 ( UTC)