Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

The forces on the ball hanging in midair aren't balanced. That's why it is only instantaneously at rest.
I think I'm interpreting your question right?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.