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I’ve copied the quote again after the question was edited.
HolgerFiedler
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This seems to be more a question for chemistry. The reason lays on the atomic bonds.

First at all, for high enough temperatures all solids will go to a liquid or and gaseous-like state and behave like marbles. And for temperatures near 0 Kelvin the marbles will behave more or less like a crystal.

... if we take different marbles in a box and shake it then shouldn't they arrange themselves in order to get to a low energy state.

It does. Nearly all marbles will lay in the closed-packing of equal spheres.enter image description here

And why the balls do not stick together an the crystalline level? Because it is needed some activation energy. But that’s all about chemistry.

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