but there are also situations where these spheres you know if i have these patterns right here these spheres are so large kind of the the attractions of the patterns are so large that if i start let's say here then i don't converge to either of these two patterns i converge to like something in the middle i converge to maybe this point right here and that's going to be one of these meta stable states okay we're going to encounter situations like this but we're also going to encounter situations like this and the bottom thing isn't necessarily