Nature’s Best-Kept Secret

Hey, can I let you in on something only a chosen few know?

Did you know that the egg – the run-of-the-mill standard-issue egg – is the most structurally sound object nature has ever devised?

It’s true.

Just ask any engineer or architect you may know.

It’s nature’s best-kept secret.

An egg is designed to withstand concerted uniform pressure from all points at once.

If you apply constant pressure at every single point on the surface of the egg, it will never, ever break. No matter how much pressure you apply. That’s due to the viscous equilibrium balance between the inner fluids of the egg and the shell.

Now, if you crack a corner of an egg against the edge of a pan, it’ll crack. That’s because the pressure you’ve exerted on it is not uniform, that is, on all points at the same time.

Try this experiment.

Hold an egg in your hand, and then wrap your fingers around it so that it’s held tight in your fist.

Now squeeze.

No matter how hard you clench your fist, the egg will never break.

Try it for yourself and see.

Try it.

It’s nature’s best-kept secret, revealed for all for the first time on the Hopper.