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Originally Posted by Mike V. Florida
Why doesn't the bubble just travel back up to the tank?
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Even bubbles can be sticky--why not?
Examples of such metastability are all around us--lots of things that "should" happen either happen immeasurably slowly, or erratically and unpredictably, or not until it's given a tickle of some sort, or maybe not at all. My favorite example is the fact that the organic world and its inhabitants, bathed in a sea of oxygen as it is, doesn't burst into flames, as would be predicted if things were as simple as energy (i.e., "should") being in charge.