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So if you have inverse-square force laws,
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or any combination of inverse-square force laws,
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like a combination of gravity and electrostatics and magnetics,
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you can't get a minimum energy structure,
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unless everything just falls together or blows apart.
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So Earnshaw's Theorem: "In systems governed by inverse-square force laws
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there can be no local maximum
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(or minimum) of potential energy in free space."
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And that's why I don't just float here,
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I have to be on the floor. Right?
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Did you ever see anything truly levitating,
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something that just sits in space