Things around us
2. Eggs are violating physics !!!
"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking"
-Albert Einstein
A good and well developed hen will produce 250 eggs a year. Excluding the physical rest taken by egg a hen produce one egg in two days. One egg takes a whole day to full develop before it comes out. As humans most of us would used egg as food because it is rich in proteins,indirectly we may have used them in face mask, shampoo and other cosmetics ,but if you note the shape of egg , it violate a basic and convincing theory which has been proved in outer space. lets break it.
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Concept of minimal surface
Note for math Greek's this will break you. Minimal surface in a physical view point is a surface which has the minimum surface area to volume ratio. Example : Given a certain volume of fluid, of all shapes
that could contain that volume, the sphere has the smallest surface area. So in a three dimensional view sphere is the minimal surface, this is the reason for the shape of water droplets in space, soap bubbles etc. So in real world a sphere occupies the minimum area for a given volume.
Example of minimal surface
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/water-space-how-does-water-behave-outer-space?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
How hen produce egg
In the domestic hen, an egg takes about
twenty-four hours to form, beginning as yolk (the ovum) in the hen's ovary. The
incipient egg starts a long, stop-and-go trek through the oviduct, the tubular
passage that leads from the ovary to the vagina. On the egg's first, three-hour
rest stop, it picks up albumen (egg white) secreted from cells in the oviduct
walls. The egg then inches along to a section of the oviduct where, pausing for
an hour, it receives the membranes that will line the shell. Finally, it moves
on to the uterus, where over a period of twenty hours, it accumulates chalky
deposits that harden into the shell. So far,the egg has always traveled with
its more pointed end leading the way. But half an hour before emerging, the egg
flips over so that it's laid blunt end first. The egg is initially a fluid structure. In the absence of external
forces, the egg would be a sphere, a shape that minimizes contact with the rest
of the world.their eggs are elongated because the muscular
contractions of the oviduct, which propel the eggs by squeezing them, modify
their spherical form.
https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-do-chickens-lay-eggs/
How an egg violates physics?
As mentioned earlier, a surface should be of minimum surface area for a given volume by nature, but egg has a oval shape, which literally in Latin means egg. Oval is a shape in which one end is pointed and other is blunt just like an egg. So in a basic theoretical sense an egg violate the concept of minimal surface so it violates physics.
Does nature have an answer for the exception?
From my point of view yes, The eagle owl and the kingfisher actually lay
eggs that are nearly spheres, but most birds are like the chicken.Certain sea birds, such as the guillemot, a
narrow-billed auk that inhabits northern waters, lay eggs that are even less
like spheres than chicken eggs are. The guillemot egg is shaped like a top.
The dynamics of this shape makes the best answer for this question. Now take a ball and give a push horizontally at its center, you will observe that that the ball will go straight without forming a curve. Now take a egg and so the same, it will nor follow a straight path as a sphere it will form a curved path and stops quickly. So if a chicken egg was a sphere, it would be much
more prone to rolling away which is dangerous because it can kill the life inside or it may travel a long distance and break.
Next, safe packing. The eggs of chickens and many other birds
are broader at one end than the other means that they can be packed together
closely in a nest-more so than if they were spheres.So this will help the hen to maintain the temperature in order to grow the life inside the egg.
Strength of the egg, the shape of the egg also contributes to its
strength. After all, it must not break under the weight of a nesting parent.
Given its size and the thinness of its shell, a chicken egg may be relatively
strong, but not so strong that it will survive, as legend has it, the grip of a
muscleman who squeezes it longitudinally in one hand but that if a strong man applied pressure uniformly
to the surface of an egg, he might not be able to break it. In practice,
however, no one applies uniform pressure-it's greater at some point than
another-and the egg bursts. Relatively the oval shape give more strength than a spherical shape.
Closely packed eggs
https://twitter.com/cgtnafrica/status/965828392720400384
Egg settles on a slope
https://ijpam.eu/contents/2012-78-5/8/8.pdf
Conclusion
Thus from the shape of egg we have few benefits, an egg tends to stop in a slope.they fit together quite snugly in the nest, with only quite small air spaces between them. So the eggs radiate their heat onto each other, and keep each other warm, and also, you can fit more eggs into the nest. So this violation of an egg is good for its survival unless a human breaks it and eat it.
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