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Thursday, December 22, 2005
The egg thing
I'm told this is the day when you can (allegedly) balance an egg on end. Alas, I have no eggs in the house. Please carry out the experiment and report back to me.
6 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Actually that's true of the equinoxes in March and September, not the solstices in June and December. I have pictures of myself doing it in the spring when I was 14 or 15.
Today is probably when it would be the most UNbalanced.
I'm the same anon poster as above - a quick google search indicates that with enough patience you can do it anytime of the year and that being close to the equinoxes has no influence.
I've only tried to do it that once on the vernal equinox and was successful. So I guess it could work today too, but I don't really have any idea.
...and now, for something not completely different:
to tell a (an?) hardboiled egg from a raw egg, spin the egg on a countertop (not on end, silly, hhh), *briefly* stop it spinning with the palm of your hand, and immediately release...
if it continues spinning again, you've got a raw ovum, kamper...
anaoymous says, balancing the egg works only March and September..not so! All four times each year the sun is at right angles with the equator..so all four days are optimum..2 Equinox..2 Solstice. I have been celebrating this cool example of our relationship with the sun for many years with photographs, artwork and insprational thoughts. Come to artopea.com and visit. In Artopea..everything and everybody is striving for balance and the sun is our magnet. We have learned to gaze at the sun daily..and I mean gaze..not blink..not look away, but to gaze lovingly and longingly to " eat the light". It is an excellent diet..what could be better?
addendum to DeFords comment on the wonderful egg thingy..
Because of the 23 degree tilt of the earth's spin axis, there is a degree of symmetry during an equinox when the earth's spin axis is exactly at right angles with the direction to the sun from the earth. At this point the diallel gravitational field lines of the earth and the sun have perhaps a more complimentary symmetry, causing minimal distortion from the vertical for these lines at this period, according to the new Gravitational Theory. This means that free electrons in an egg can travel along these vertical diallel field lines, perhaps providing somewhat improved stability of the egg standing on end during the equinox period. Again, the theory predicts that an egg can be stood upright on any day of the year if there are enough free electrons present and the local diallel gravitational field lines are not perturbed from the vertical. This has been proven. See notes below.
6 comments:
Actually that's true of the equinoxes in March and September, not the solstices in June and December. I have pictures of myself doing it in the spring when I was 14 or 15.
Today is probably when it would be the most UNbalanced.
I'm the same anon poster as above - a quick google search indicates that with enough patience you can do it anytime of the year and that being close to the equinoxes has no influence.
I've only tried to do it that once on the vernal equinox and was successful. So I guess it could work today too, but I don't really have any idea.
Here's the SCIENCE.
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/egg_spin.html#badegg
...and now, for something not completely different:
to tell a (an?) hardboiled egg from a raw egg, spin the egg on a countertop (not on end, silly, hhh), *briefly* stop it spinning with the palm of your hand, and immediately release...
if it continues spinning again, you've got a raw ovum, kamper...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
anaoymous says, balancing the egg works only March and September..not so!
All four times each year the sun is at right angles with the equator..so all four days are optimum..2 Equinox..2 Solstice. I have been celebrating this cool example of our relationship with the sun for many years with photographs, artwork and insprational thoughts.
Come to artopea.com and visit. In Artopea..everything and everybody is striving for balance and the sun is our magnet. We have learned to gaze at the sun daily..and I mean gaze..not blink..not look away, but to gaze lovingly and longingly to " eat the light". It is an excellent diet..what could be better?
addendum to DeFords comment on the wonderful egg thingy..
Because of the 23 degree tilt of the earth's spin axis, there is a degree of symmetry during an equinox when the earth's spin axis is exactly at right angles with the direction to the sun from the earth. At this point the diallel gravitational field lines of the earth and the sun have perhaps a more complimentary symmetry, causing minimal distortion from the vertical for these lines at this period, according to the new Gravitational Theory. This means that free electrons in an egg can travel along these vertical diallel field lines, perhaps providing somewhat improved stability of the egg standing on end during the equinox period. Again, the theory predicts that an egg can be stood upright on any day of the year if there are enough free electrons present and the local diallel gravitational field lines are not perturbed from the vertical. This has been proven. See notes below.
http://www.allanstime.com/UnifiedFieldTheory/egg/
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