If you want to try it yourself, LiveAbout gives some tips: It’s not a hoax that the broom and egg will stand up, but it happens any day. Eggs will also stand up every day because the yolk moves to the bottom of the egg and balances it, according to CNN.
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You, me, we have to learn how to recognize stupidity and not pass it along.”Īnother urban legend claims that eggs will balance on the spring equinox, which is also not based on science. Schaefer added, “It’s a sociological question: How do these myths get started, and why are they propagating? If we pride ourselves on being in an information age, but most of the information is wrong, that bodes badly for society. The nature of science is to test reality.” Science is all about dispelling these old wives’ tales, these urban myths, these stupid Internet memes. You just have to know the trick.īradley Schaefer, an LSU physics and astronomy professor, told the LSU Reveille in 2012, “I can tell you very confidently that astronomically, the equinox has absolutely nothing to do with (it). The same brooms standing on end today will stand on end a week from now, a month from now, or four months from now, regardless of the positioning of the planets. For example, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn aligned most recently in 2016, but astronomers say such events have negligible effects on earthly objects. LiveAbout wrote:įor one thing, the spring equinox, which occurs every year in late March, has nothing to do with brooms standing on end. One 2012 CNN story explained that the myth went viral on Facebook and Twitter and that the broom would stand up every day. Google and social media search results show the story usually pops up in March, around the actual spring equinox, not in February. The story went viral as recently as 2018, according to. So the challenge didn’t work with me but it worked with my dad🤷♀️😂 #broomchallenge isn’t the first time claims have spread online that NASA said brooms can stand up on their own on the spring or vernal equinox. The same science works with eggs - the longer an egg stands upright, the yoke will settle on the bottom and lower the egg's center of gravity and allow it to stand upright.īut it's still a fun challenge - and dozens of people tried it out Monday. The center of gravity is quite low on a broom, which means anyone can make a broom stand up if they try hard enough - any day of the year. The basis of the #BroomChallenge was likely along the same lines as the #EggChallenge. The "challenge" has nothing to do with the gravitational pull of the Earth or anything tied to a certain day of the year or century. The truth is, anyone can make a broom stand up on its own today, tomorrow or any day of the year. While the alleged NASA tweet doesn't exist, the broom challenge isn't entirely a lie. Social media was inundated on Monday with posts about the #BroomChallenge that contained an alleged post for NASA claiming that Februwas the only day a broomstick would be able to stand on its own because of something to do with "gravitational pull."
A new challenge is sweeping the internet,
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