#78 Myth Busting

Tis the season for coloring eggs and spring is right around the corner. In two days the vernal equinox will be upon us signifying the start of spring. This is when the sun is directly over the earth's equator and the length of day and night are about the same. This is also the day when you may start to hear that you can balance an egg on its end. The skeptic in me never believed it, so today I put my myth busting to the test, I balanced eggs on their end, two days before the vernal equinox. Truth is you can do this any day of the year. One explanation I came across was the egg has small little imperfections or bumps that act as a small little tripod if you hit it just right. I was able to make 4 of the 6 eggs stand on end. Here's Snopes take on this as well as a guy from a physics department who conducted an experiment on this topic.