Keeping things stable takes energy. I guess it's a little counter-intuitive, since you think of Newton's first law: a body at rest will stay at rest. But the reality is different. Think about an old water tank you find in the woods. It's sitting there, doing nothing, and yet it's slowly falling apart. Eventually the rust eats away at it beyond a certain threshold, and it collapses under its own weight. Joshua Edward Smith
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Keeping things stable takes energy is a very common quote. It refers to how it is energy that keeps things in place so they do not fall apart. This quote usually makes use of the example of an old water tank which becomes unstable because of rust on it. When the rust eats away at the water tank, it causes it to become unstable and fall apart. The reason that this quote is very common is that it is easy to understand and relates directly to the problem at hand.

Source: Entropy

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