Saturday, September 23, 2017

The One Where We Balance and Egg on the Equinox



According to legend - perhaps even urban legend - it is believed that you can balance an egg (or balance an egg better depending on the source) on the Spring and Fall Equinox than any other time of the year.



While science cannot prove or disprove this fact - there is a great National Geographic Article on it - people have been testing it out for years. In school, I showed a video where a boy did this in 2009. And yesterday, a student sent me a video where he did it.


So, I figured, since yesterday was September 22 - the autumnal equinox for 2017 - why not give it a try.

And try we did. We tested it out in the kitchen and at first had little luck. However, Emmie proved to us that the egg could balance. She got it to balance for a good 30 seconds. Next, Kiff was able to do it and his was impressive...it lasted nearly two minutes. I got the egg to balance to a good 20 second. Bri, who was super frustrated she could not get it done, at last got it to balance and hers also went for 30 seconds.

So we proved yesterday that we could balance an egg on the equinox. It may not prove that an egg can balance on the equinox....but it did prove that we could have a lot of fun trying.

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