According to a statement: "After many years of performing in a multitude of configurations, Jack White is announcing that he will be taking a break from performing live for a long period of time".
Indeed, any woman who has been told to "smile, love, it might never happen" will know that even when not a member of the royal family, moving one's facial muscles into certain configurations remains displeasing to some.
Metastability is the idea that there are multiple stable configurations a system can assume within a larger possibility space; the shape that system takes at the moment may simply be one among many that are potentially available to it.
The event gave the news desk the chance to make use of many alternative templates in various configurations.
He saw Canberra as "a symbolic place, an art form which could survive only if harmoniously related with the configurations of the land".
Thierry Vareilles, a retired colonel in the French army who led bomb-squad missions in a dozen countries, says as soon as one group has come up with "hoax" wiring designed to trick bomb-disposal experts, even distant groups soon start using the treacherous configurations.
By replacing a 50-cent piece from the Vatican (worth around €3 in online auctions) with a regular 50-cent coin, the volunteer could net €2.50.High bar or no barThe researchers tested different configurations of monitoring and rewards.
Some have devoted themselves to working out how it might be possible in theory, if difficult in practice, to build a time machine using exotic configurations of black holes, wormholes or cosmic strings.
Scientists have tried to deal with the problem by using enormous computing power to sift systematically through billions of possible configurations.
At present, it is assumed that these will include a mission to service the Hubble space telescope, although no decision will be made about this until the shuttle has flown again twice.Having fewer shuttle flights than originally expected will spell trouble for some parts of the station and will result in what is euphemistically described as "alternative configurations".
Virgin's craft can fly in two configurations: a low-drag arrangement when climbing into space, and a high-drag one used to lose speed while descending.
