configuration
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Lloyd moved on to small, blinking, symmetrical configurations that, almost 60 years later, seem slightly old-fashioned.
"When we let them evolve in time, we find that they can settle into stable configurations called solitons. These solitons could provide a purely geometric explanation of phenomena such as spontaneous symmetry breaking."
From Science Daily
A number of these planets are also part of multi-planet systems, a configuration that high-eccentricity migration typically disrupts, since that process can scatter or eject neighboring planets.
From Science Daily
Meanwhile, Three said it had "experienced disruption to voice services following an exceptional spike in network traffic triggered by a third-party software configuration change".
From BBC
Each configuration seems contingent, not fixed, as if in a process of perpetual transition driven by some invisible force—tectonic restlessness or a growth hormone, say.
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