The world will have a shadowless day from September 6 - October 21. Then, is it true that eggs can stand when a day without a shadow occurs?
So, the tradition of raising eggs to celebrate the position of the Sun which is directly above the equator (the phenomenon of the equinox) is commonplace. In the world, people especially often do this habit. In China, Chungking also welcomes spring with the tradition of laying eggs.
But people who are engaged in the world of science seem to tend to be skeptical about this. Frank D. Ghigo, who is an astronomer, had time to prove it. From his experiments, Ghigo concluded that eggs could be laid at any time, whether there was an equinox or not.
"The result, as far as I know, is not much of a connection between astronomical phenomena and eggs that can stand. It's simply a function of the shape of the egg and its surface," Ghigo said as reported by the Associated Press in 1987 ago.
Ghigo believes that the success of laying an egg is determined by one's effort and mood. The more nervous or hasty a person is, the more difficult it is to set up an egg.
No correlation between the equinox phenomenon and the egg can be established easily. According to him this is just a myth.
"I was able to lay eggs at the equator at the peak / culmination. I haven't tried it in other places... Earlier there were also those who failed to set up eggs even though they were at the equator and at the culmination of the sun," he said on Wednesday, March 21 2018.