In #MESExperiments 38 I show that stirring a column of water causes an egg to rise 33% faster and fall 25% slower than a ping pong ball, thus confirming Viktor Schauberger's rising egg experiment. Viktor Schauberger was an Austrian forester, inventor, and scientist that maintained the unique perspective that water was a living entity and prefers to move in a vortex manner. From this perspective, he stated that a shape that allows water to flow as a vortex around it would be able to move through water much easier than other shapes, such as a sphere. Viktor demonstrated this by his rising egg experiment, which involves stirring a column of water causing an egg to rise faster than a ping-pong ball filled with saline water to have the same buoyancy as the egg.
In order to validate his rising egg experiment properly, I used a plastic egg that was similar in size to a ping pong ball and filled them both with salt water until they sunk freely downwards. Then I performed the rising experiment 10 times each for the ping pong ball, the egg with broad side down, and the egg with broad side up. I timed the total time, and then I timed the rising only and falling only times. I did the experiment many times to minimize the influence of any variables such as stirring speed, water rotation rate, or position of the egg/ball in the cylinder.
At the start the egg fell faster than the ball indicating it was a bit more buoyant but, due to the water being in constant rotation after stirring, the egg with the broadside up fell 25% slower than the ping pong ball. In total, the egg with the broadside up rose 33% faster than the ping pong ball, while the egg with the broadside down still rose 18% faster than the PPB. Pretty amazing stuff!
Experiment results Viktor Schauberger links:
- Original unedited experiment:
- Experiment results Excel file: https://1drv.ms/x/s!As32ynv0LoaIivgzFQ6k0XqICHrBiQ
- Living Energies book by Callum Coats: https://archive.org/details/LivingEnergies/page/n145/mode/2up?view=theater
- Rising egg experiment is on Page 141 (PDF 147)
- MES Local PDF: https://1drv.ms/b/s!As32ynv0LoaIiu9PhdOm-l40uNaTGA
- Experiment illustration:
- Viktor Schauberger (30 June 1885 - 25 September 1958) wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Schauberger
- Natural Philosophers wiki: https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=Viktor_Schauberger
- ChatGPT on Viktor Schauberger: https://chatgpt.com/share/b7d71c2a-1819-48b0-a183-928a6ee9698d
- Callum Coats wiki: https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=Callum_Coats
Timestamps
- Replicating Viktor Schauberger's Rising Egg Experiment: 0:00
- Adding saline water to ping pong ball and plastic egg: 0:05
- Ping pong ball weighs 28.65 g. Egg weighs 31.29 g 0:18
- Total Time of Rising and Falling: 0:26
- Experiment start: Ping pong ball vs Plastic egg (broad side down and up): 0:33
- Plastic egg with broadside down has fastest Total Time: 3:21
- Rising Only Time: 2:16
- Plastic egg with broadside up rose the fastest: 3:13
- Falling Only Time: 3:22
- Plastic egg with broadside down fell the fastest (broadside up the slowest): 4:22
- Results: Plastic egg with broadside up rose 33% faster and fell 25% slower than the ping pong ball: 4:31
- Bar chart of the results: 4:50
Stay tuned for #MESExperiments 39...
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Screenshots of Experiment
For reference here are screenshots of the experiment.
Adding Saline Water to Ping Pong Ball and Plastic Egg
Total Time of Rising and Falling
Rising Only Time
Falling Only Time
