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More likely we are getting tangled up in the
definition of "equilibrium".
Here's a simple example. (I regret previous
unnecessarily-complicated examples.) How about
a simple pendulum, or a mass on a spring. It
converts energy from PE to KE and back, largely
reversibly, but it's nowhere near equilibrium,
according to the most-common definition of
equilibrium.