metastable

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You need to decellerate into the point since it's (at best) metastable, so there's a huge practical downside.

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Quick take

A particle, etc. in the metastable state.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of metastable gathered in one view.

noun

A particle, etc. in the metastable state.

adjective

(physics, chemistry) Of or pertaining to a physical or chemical state that is relatively long-lived, but may decay to a lower energy state when slightly perturbed or through a quantum transition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for metastable.

noun

A particle, etc. in the metastable state.

adjective

(physics, chemistry) Of or pertaining to a physical or chemical state that is relatively long-lived, but may decay to a lower energy state when slightly perturbed or through a quantum transition.

Example sentences

You need to decellerate into the point since it's (at best) metastable, so there's a huge practical downside.

By triggering updates at the first piston, you can trigger a cascade of updates that collapses the metastable system.

This peptide is a generally problematic peptide - it's metastable - and in Type II diabetics it forms plaques.

It raises people into a life (suburban, institutional, conformist, metastable) that no longer makes any damn sense.

You're right that any long chain of latches could end up metastable and screwed up.

Because they've designed it so that even in the metastable state it handles things correctly.

Another way to say it is that the metastable states are only local attractors.

Interestingly, mice and rats have amylin, but unlike most other mammals, it's not metastable[0].

And there are excited nuclei, like the metastable isotope technetium-99m.

Synroc [1] is technically far superior as it puts the long lived isotopes into mineral phases in which they are stable, as opposed to metastable glass.

You may implement something very thin like artificial pain or hunger, but the odds that it will push the system out of a metastable stupor are likely negligible.

If you're load-balancing between multiple database replicas -- or between several S3 endpoints -- this sort of MRU connection pool will cause metastable load imbalances on the targets.

Quote examples

I use the term metastable because although it is fully stable (that's the problem!) it isn't the "ground state".

"metastable states coexisting in one and the same, like a universal system of deformation." That's your counter-argument?

Any "symptom control" amounts to pumping the distribution flatter - it's a sisyphean task, structurally opposed to the power that money creates, and hence metastable at best.

Anyway, it would seem that the term "Boltzmann brain" refers to a technical problem associated with the growth rate of the creation of metastable states from fluctuations during inflation (an actual particle physicist should feel free to chime in).