  The dynamics of a metastable attractive Bose-Einstein condensate trapped by a
system of laser beams is analyzed in the presence of small fluctuations of the
laser intensity. It is shown that the condensate will eventually collapse. The
expected collapse time is inversely proportional to the integrated covariance
of the time autocorrelation function of the laser intensity and it decays
logarithmically with the number of atoms. Numerical simulations of the
stochastic 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation confirms analytical predictions for
small and moderate values of mean field interaction.
