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You remember my post about balancing the egg on the equinox, right?

Well, I had no idea that I would start a three-way ‘discussion’.

The conversation went like this:

This was from Christy at Ramsey Central Homeschool:

Okay you two— This is my take on the egg thing…
Number one: Equinox has no bearing on the ‘balance’
Number two: The balance I think, is because the yolk settles in the
bottomwhen they are in the carton. That makes it easier to balance.
Number three: When I balanced it, I did two hands and gently balanced
thenbounced it off my fingertips…until it balanced. And, I DID NOT USE
SALT JENNIFER!!! LOLOLOL! So, there you go! That is my two cents!

This was Jennifer’s (Toad Haven) response:

Supposedly you can shake it up and break the yolk up so that the yolk can

fall lower in the egg and lower the center of balance which will make it

balance easier. We tried that last year but were never able to break

the yolk when we checked after our failed attempts to balance the egg.

Guess you have a really steady hand and good eggs at your house, Christy.

Have you seen the artwork done by balancing lots and lots of eggs?

My response:

Nope, I haven’t seen the artwork. I’ve seen a few impressive sites,

though, since this discussion began. And everything I’ve seen leads me more and

more to the conclusion that it just can’t be done without tricks; salt on the

surface, scratched bottom of the egg, and now broken yolks. But, you know

Jennifer, we may try to do some of these tricks and see if we can get it

to work that way. It could be a way for GB to feel like the experiment was

successful.

Stay tuned!

Btw, Christy, were your eggs just regular, run of the mill eggs? I know

it’s been a while, do you remember?

Back to Jennifer:

Well, technically, you can get anything to balance as long as you can get

the center of gravity just above the point of contact with the table but

I’m not that good. Christy is going to work on it today and see if she can get

more to balance. She must have a really steady hand or really good eggs. I

just googled around and saw a class that “says” that they got their eggs

to stand on the tips without any tricks and they even sent in a picture but

I’m not convinced they didn’t have some sort of help. You know, white eggs

are bumpier than brown eggs and so my guess would be that it would be easier

to balance a white egg than a brown egg. I tried brown eggs in the past -need

to try white eggs now.

Balancing rocks and other things balancing

http://toadhaven.com/Rock%20Balancing.html

Christy’s shocking response:

Okay, you know I had to make a page about it—esp when I tried to balance

it on the glass table—So, Check it out:

www.ramseycentral.com/homeschool

Robin, I linked to your blog hope that is okay—lmk if you’d rather I

didn’t.

C.

And then my reply:

OMG~!!!

I am screaming with laughter over you two!!

I had no idea what I had started.

But ok, I’m off to give this a try. Unlike Jennifer, I am skeptical in my

abilities.

Oh, for crying out loud!!

I got it on the first try using Christy’s technique!!

I’m really shocked!

Back to Christy:

Yippppeeee! Send me a picture and I will put it on my page!

So here they are!!

Somebody smack me! I think I’m gonna faint!

Just a regular old egg from the carton.

I never thought it would really work. I bow my head to you, Christy. You were right!