Posted by
timothy
on from the hard-boiled-science dept.
SuperAbe writes: "According to an article in this week's issue of the journal Nature, mathematicians Keith Moffatt of the University of Cambridge and Yutaka Shimomura of Keio University, Yokohama, Japan have discovered why hard-boiled eggs spun on their side stand on end spontaneously: friction."
Re:Simple explanation for physics geeks
by
shlong
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· Score: 3, Interesting
You obviously didn't read the article. "You have to have slipping between the egg and the surface," advises Moffatt. "If you tried this on a hard rubber table it wouldn't rise."
While your explaination is partially correct, you missed the whole point of the article.
-- Cat, the other, tastier white meat.
And what about fresh eggs?
by
3waygeek
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· Score: 2, Interesting
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You obviously didn't read the article.
"You have to have slipping between the egg and the surface," advises Moffatt. "If you tried this on a hard rubber table it wouldn't rise."
While your explaination is partially correct, you missed the whole point of the article.
Cat, the other, tastier white meat.
You can stand them on end, too.