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In #MESExperiments 39 I redo Viktor Schauberger's rising egg experiment but this time using an electric drill instead of manually stirring the water. This experiment confirms my earlier one, this time the plastic egg with the broad side up rose 21% faster and fell 24% slower than the ping pong ball. Note that the falling rate was similar to the 25% in the previous experiment, while the previous experiment the plastic egg with the broad side up rose 33% faster than the ping pong ball. The manual stirring in the previous experiment provided greater rotation speed of the water since all the objects rose faster in that experiment, thus likely also the affecting the percentage difference in rising rates. Nonetheless this further confirms Viktor Schauberger's experiment, and an egg shape with the broad side up rises faster in a water vortex than a spherical ping pong ball. Note that the ball and egg were filled with salt water (saline solution) so that they both have the same buoyancy.

Experiment results Viktor Schauberger links

• Original unedited experiment:
• Experiment results Excel file: https://1drv.ms/x/s!As32ynv0LoaIi4MMfqmCEPkIF58Hsg
• 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 with a Drill: 0:00
• Ping pong ball weighs 28.46 g. Egg weighs 30.93 g 0:06
• Ping pong ball displaces 27 mL of water. Egg displaces 30 mL: 0:17
• Total Time of Rising and Falling: 0:32
• Experiment start: Ping pong ball vs Plastic egg (broad side down and up): 0:46
• Plastic egg with broadside down has fastest Total Time: 2:44
• Timing the Rising Only: 2:52
• Plastic egg with broadside up rose the fastest: 4:18
• Timing the Falling Only: 4:27
• Ping pong ball and plastic egg with broadside down fell the fastest (broadside up the slowest): 5:56
• Results: Plastic egg with broadside up rose 21% faster and fell 24% slower than the ping pong ball: 6:07
• Bar chart of the results: 6:21

Stay tuned for #MESExperiments 40...

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Screenshots of Experiment

For reference here are screenshots of the experiment.

Weighing the Ping Pong Ball and Plastic Egg

Measuring volume of water displaced by Ball and Egg

Total time of falling and rising

Timing the Rising Only

Timing the Falling Only

Results of the Experiment