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whitelighter
I have a question that I am sure is easy to answer.
I am looking for a word used to describe a state of Teetering or Brinkmanship.
examples:
hmmmm...
Trying to balance a sharpened pencil on it's tip. The pencil is always teetering.
Paying golf, the ball in flight is always suseptable to any wind changes etc...( damn that wind)
A rocket is fired to travel 1,000,000 light years but ends up 10,000 light years off course because a small meteorite hit is 1000 kms into it's journey.
A pendulum on a string swings to it's highest point and at this point neither wants to go up or down.
I am sure you get the drift of what I'm looking for.
I've been calling this effect a "Teetering" point in that the object is constantly in a state of potential movement.
Any ideas?
I am looking for a word used to describe a state of Teetering or Brinkmanship.
examples:
hmmmm...
Trying to balance a sharpened pencil on it's tip. The pencil is always teetering.
Paying golf, the ball in flight is always suseptable to any wind changes etc...( damn that wind)
A rocket is fired to travel 1,000,000 light years but ends up 10,000 light years off course because a small meteorite hit is 1000 kms into it's journey.
A pendulum on a string swings to it's highest point and at this point neither wants to go up or down.
I am sure you get the drift of what I'm looking for.
I've been calling this effect a "Teetering" point in that the object is constantly in a state of potential movement.
Any ideas?