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Re: Balancing Eggs




Paul Middents writes:
Why it is that a raw egg can be balanced on end with
relative ease only at or near the summer solstice.

At the time of the summer solstice (or any other day and time that you
select), it is very easy to balance a raw egg on end.

Just put a very small pile of salt on the table where the egg will be
placed.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where physics teachers have to be magicians sometimes to prove a point)