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Solution to the 'Spinning Egg' Problem

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."

2 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. ahem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first 366 p057

  2. Eggs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someone come and fertilise my eggs please.