It’s the equinox today, I think, or close enough. Wake the neighbors, phone the kids… and go balance and egg on it’s end. Not one of those bumpy ones, either. Today is one of two days in the year that you can balance even smooth and pointy ones on their ends. We’ve had one standing up straight all morning on the kitchen counter, wondering how long before the planet tips enough to knock it over.
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can you balance and egg on it’s end, buddy? we tried it here a couple of weeks ago and nada. this week, ta-da! so i’m relying on direct experimentation! since when are you arguing the case of theory-based experts over experience-based life?! [big fat grin]
I just operate under the basic assumption that one would need substantially more sensitive instruments than a chicken egg to notice gravitational fluctuations due to solar positioning relative to any point on Earth during the equinox.
Google has confirmed my suspicions that perhaps this is, what is called in academic journals “an urban myth.”
Did you check this out with your resident quantum physiscist…:-)
I tried it after reading that Michael had done it. No dice. Michael, maybe you just got better at it with practice?
The resident quantum physicist chiming in… experience is hard to deny. and do you know that egg is still standing?! well, it’s been knocked over a few times, but we’re always able to get it upright again… so now I think this experiment needs to be taken to another level as perhaps the egg has altered in someway after standing for a week! … more eggs, alternate locations, time, June 21st, …
Jill