<p>My school librarian said if you put an egg on a flat surface outside at 8 o’clock tonight, it will stand up vertically by itself. She said there seems to be a pull from the sky that makes the egg do this. She does this every year and it works. Has anyone ever heard/tried this? I’m going to test it out tonight. What other conditions should I be aware of?</p>
<p>Be aware of the flying bull plop that will be raining down from the sky.</p>
<p>I take it she is lying. The librarian WILL pay the price.</p>
<p>yea, I have heard of this…that you can stand an egg upright on the vernal equinox because of stronger gravitational pull…or whatnot. Well…yes and no. You can actually stand an egg up any time, because of imperfections of the egg or the surface, creating a tripod like effect to support the egg, and it may be slightly easier on the VE beacuse of the alignment of the sun and earth…but nothing noticeable. it isn’t like the egg will magically stand upright on it’s own, or you can do it in one try, it’s like standing a coin on it’s side. just google “standing + egg +VE” and you should get some articles about this.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>“My school librarian said if you put an egg on a flat surface outside at 8 o’clock tonight, it will stand up vertically by itself. She said there seems to be a pull from the sky that makes the egg do this. She does this every year and it works. Has anyone ever heard/tried this? I’m going to test it out tonight. What other conditions should I be aware of?”</p>
<p>I actually did this last year for my physics class for extra credit since we were discussing gravitational pull. Then I did it again 3 weeks later, thus proving the whole thing is nothing but a legend. </p>
<p>If your interested, here is an article about it:</p>
<p><a href=“http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/a/equinox_eggs.htm[/url]”>http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/errata/a/equinox_eggs.htm</a></p>