Word: disequilibrium
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...suds, explained the Belgian scientist, are in disequilibrium, some whipped by a cosmic repulsive force (expressed by the constant lambda), some clutched at by the attractive force which earthlings know as gravity. While some bubbles swell and others contract, still others, unstably balanced between the two forces, are in a state of stagnation. Within some regions where expansion is the rule, there are collapsing systems flying headlong away from one another. Also, in slowly collapsing regions are to be found a number of rapidly collapsing systems. Such a system is the Milky Way, the galaxy to which Earth belongs...
...first year of its operation the Central Committee was chiefly concerned with correcting the social disequilibrium. It could not give its main attention to a further problem: assigning students to Houses in which their tutors are resident, and assigning concentrators to Houses in which their field is well represented tutorially...