Brooms Standing Up During Eclipse

How does a stick stand during a lunar eclipse.

Brooms standing up during eclipse. It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox another day of the year when this magic supposedly happens. That urban legend is false of course i have a suspicion that the person asking this question has heard a similar urban. The tweet was accompanied by a video of a woman propping a broom up. Broomchallenge brooms nasa harry potter theme song ost.

March 20th is the first day of spring or vernal equinox as it s known to astronomers vernal meaning of or pertaining to spring equinox meaning equal night as the angle of the earth s inclination toward the sun changes throughout the year lengthening or shortening the days according to the season and hemisphere there are two times annually when day and night are of more or less. The reason your brooms are standing on end is because of the equinox it happens twice a year this is when the earths axis lines up with the suns making a straight line basically causing gravity to be messed up and in a few places and items things can stand on end you can also do it with eggs not just brooms they will stand on the. There is an urban legend that a broom will stand by itself during an equinox. Well apparently it s happening all over.

A viral tweet claims nasa says the earth s gravitational pull causes brooms to stand up straight for one day only but experts say this trick works any day of the year. So why is this happening. As the woman watches the broom stand up on its own she yells no strings nothing. And no i don t have any ghosts in my house at least not any cleaning ghosts.

Tons of tweets and posts on facebook prove brooms and even eggs are standing. The broom trick is a variation on the egg trick the supposed phenomenon of raw eggs standing on end during and only during an equinox a date on which the plane of earth s equator passes through the center of the sun and the earth and sun are aligned such that day and night are of equal length.