Tesla's Egg of Columbus-The Gelatinous Solid

In this video I show you a device called a phi top. This is an aluminum ellipsoid that has some neat physics associated with it. It raises its center of gravity when spun. It can be stopped by creating eddy currents with magnet. Or spun with a magnet. This is the same procedure that Telsa applied to a copper egg in his famous Columbus egg demonstration. Also when light is reflected off the spinning ellipsoid it exhibits lissajous curves.
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*Any experiment you try is at YOUR OWN RISK. The Action Lab assumes no responsibility for any injury if you attempt anything you see in this video or on The Action Lab channel.

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An aluminum egg*

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If only he could get a cat to do it.

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The Action Lab Why didn't you include a link to buy the "aluminum ellipsoid"? Thanks!

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The spinning egg at the end, should have closed out Inception!

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4:04 when you get home and nobody else is around

[@pegnas]

This was fantastic! Very interesting how the non ferrous metal is actually affected by the magnet, I had no idea. I going to try a long exposure shot with one of these and the light patterns , thanks 👍🏻

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[@coyotedomino]

It’s affected by the magnet because the moving magnetic field produces electric currents in the metal, which in turn create opposing magnetic fields in the metal. It’s the same effect as when you drop a magnet down a copper pipe; the magnet will fall slowly even though the copper is non-magnetic.

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Everything is magnetic to different degrees.

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Drop a magnet through the middle of a roll of aluminum foil. (over a soft surface so you won't shatter the magnet)

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No better domonstration of a motor than when you spun up the egg with your magnet. That was cool and profound. 👍😁

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This was fascinating! I didn’t know Tesla rotated an egg as his experiment. Makes sense why he thought we could have wireless energy back in his day.

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Cell phone chargers

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Looks like analemma also

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If I had that egg, i would eat a bowl of green beans while watching it spin.

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"I hope that you learnt something today" 4:04 I new eddy currents, I didn't know they could be applied in reverse! Thanks!

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5:18 Celtic Knot similarity... Is there a connection here?

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Follows the golden ratio....my God that blows me away! Insane!

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Me: spin egg on the table Mom: don't play with food

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This is likely do to major and minor axial rotation and how much energy is required to stay in each. I find it interesting he didn't talk about that fact. The minor axis is unstable and will slowly degrade into the major axis as energy is lost. This is why a football that is spinning throw the air perfectly will slowly start to fan out because it no longer has enough energy of rotation to maintain the minor axis.

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I may get one of those. Was thinking what it may look like with different arrangements of lights or lasers around it while spinning would look like.

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I watched the entire thing. Gold star for me. 😁

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So cool!! I have to get one to show my 92 yr old mum!!!!

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when it was rotating horizontally my brain was pulsating.

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I have something like that except it's like a Top that turns upside down as you spin it.And it also turns at a weird direction due to the minimal friction

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Can I recommend that you use gloves when handling the egg. The grease marks kinda took away from illusion.

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Wow i need one

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High speed video of that would be cool

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Now that was cool, absolutely fascinating : ) Do you know how the golden ratio comes into play, it’s so weird how much it is entwined into much of our world. I use it every day as a graphic designer, humans subconsciously find it very pleasing. The romans and Greeks used it in their architecture. What was the music, I really liked it?

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Too long it will fall over Too short it will never stand up It is the perfect balance to spin this efficiently.

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Wow, the Goop egg in action.

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Whoa I didn't know about this

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Cool

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Nobody: Absolutely no one: A teacher when you haven't done your Homework: 0:44

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This works if you spin an m&m on its more flat side too. I discovered it by accident and never knew how it worked

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I was wondering if "Tesla's Egg" was a misnomer, as he mostly worked with electricity, not gryoscopoc effects. Minute 3:25 cleared this up nicely. Telsa gets so much publicity for the work that he did with electricity; it's cool to see instead something done with such physics!

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The magnet blew my mind

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Everytime i learn something at school he makes a video about the exact same thing

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You said that about the last video...

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@social if only, but sadly most education is not this comprehensive.

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It was a really great presentation of an aluminum egg. I just don’t understand why you needed a separate separate small table under it. Wouldn't it be possible without it?

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Warning: don’t watch this while on drugs.

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GUEXT Did you learn it the hard way?

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Don't let it distract from the fact that I post a vid of an egg every single day

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That's bad advise, my dude. :)

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This guy would really enjoy trying SHROOMS...

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Cool.

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Awesome video. You could use a electromagnet to pulse the egg!?

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I had to concentrate to see it pulsate my brain just made me see a rotating egg

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Tesla was amazing human being really ahead of its time still today we do not understand what he understoood in terms of laws physics mechanics etc

[@IthaloHudson]

from 8:29 onwards I completely lost the perception of the egg spinning, I could only see the pulsating blob of metal haha

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If you watch that rotating egg on LSD you will spontaneously combust

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Shoulda been sponsored by a vendor who sells thee. Im gonna buy one to meditate with.

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If this video wasn't 60fps we won't be able to see the effect.

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Bruh

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It should be noted, that this comment is specifically referring to the light patterns at around 5:20 in the video. They don't show up as a solid line if you're not at 720p60fps or higher.

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@@randomnpc445 yeah

[@Bob5mith]

If it was shot at a lower frame rate, they would still appear as lines at the lower rate. But this was shot at 60fps. Dropping every other frame breaks up the lines. The frames could be merged and preserve the lines, but that takes a lot more processing power than KZbin is willing to spend on creating multiple stream rates for every video.

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Holy cow 😮!

[@NathanHaaren]

try the magnet thing but on a wood surface (since you said its easier on a surface with grip)

[@Robbya10]

I'm probably wrong but this really feels like it has more to do with the energy it takes to rotate when it's mass is farther from the point of rotation

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wow, Tesla's sure being innovative these days. who needs sonic-rails when you can make a spinning metal oval

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Its from Nikola Tesla and not from Tesla Motors😉

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Lithgow patterns - The Outer Limits ;)

[@drflash36]

It would be very interesting to watch that egg spin with only a laser pointer as the sole source of light, pointed at a single spot on it.

[@ramanujamchandrasekharan6263]

The spinning effect looked like the Ames window of sorts. From another angle it also looked kinda like a worm moving.

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:egg of Columbus has joined the chat :brain has left the chat

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'look how fast I can get it up on wood'...😅 lmao