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[-] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You have a ball on a trampoline. Wind might knock the ball around, but its very likely to return to the center of the trampoline. This is a psuedo stable arrangment.

No, it's a local minimum, not pseudo stable. It's just not the absolute minimum

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

The ball can quantum mechanically tunnel out to the true minimum. In this sense the local minimum is actually not perfectly stable.

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