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!

Viktor Schauberger Egg.jpeg

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