Can you balance an EGG???

[kaylajr]

Today you can

It is the only day all year you can balance an EGG so it stands up on end

(and no cheating using hardboiled or something like that )

Because today is the vernal Equinox and something to do with the sun and equator

I don't know all the scientific stuff
but the kids thought it was cool to see a line of 5 EGGS standing up on the counter....

Just another piece of useless knowledge I thought I would share

 

[Pooh67_68]

I have tried it a couple of times and only got it to work once.

 

[kaylajr]

This is the first year I was actually sucessful

this trick I think lies in waiting
giving the Egg insides time to balance out


Not sure if that is true just my guess

 

[MAKmom]

No Luck here.

 

[Good Ol Gal]

nothing here either.. maybe your Equinox is fresher than mine

 

[kaylajr]

nothing here either.. maybe your Equinox is fresher than mine

It took me awhile to get it
last year I couldn't

but this year it WORKED

 

[phamton]

Actually, you can do it anytime.

http://www.snopes.com/science/equinox.htm
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/egg_spin.html#badegg

It seems to work better if you shake up the egg first. This breaks the yolk loose from the bands (chalazae) that keep it suspended in the center of the egg, lowering the egg's center of gravity. But that's cheating.


The equinox is not any different than any other day though as far as balancing eggs. It is a myth that has been around for awhile. This myth goes back to 1945, when a reporter for Life Magazine covered a Chinese ritual in which people balanced eggs on the first day of spring. But the Chinese calendar puts the first day of spring in early February, a month and a half before the equinox. This fact didn't stop Donna Henes, an artist and self-described ritual maker, from rallying 100 people in New York City in 1983 to balance eggs on March 20. At the hour and minute of the equinox, she stood her egg on end and announced, "Spring is here." The following year, 5,000 New Yorkers convened at the World Trade Center to repeat the egg ritual, meriting coverage by the New York Times. To this day, many news and radio stations repeat the story and urge people to balance eggs on the first day of spring. But myth busters say the yolk's on them because there are no such special gravitational forces at work on this day. It's possible to get an egg to balance upright on any day of the year - as long as you have the patience to do it.