Hands OnEGGHEAD
INVENTOR NIKOLA TESLA SAW REALITY IN HIS OWN WAY.
IT’S A TOY IN A MUSEUM: AN EGG IN A bowl. The egg shifts restlessly. It rocks and it rolls. The wandering egg explores the bowl’s limits. It dances arcs within the bowl’s tall rim.
Then, just when it seems about to free itself and fly out of the bowl toward its viewers, the egg hesitates. Somehow, mystically, the egg wriggles upright onto one of its ends.
The egg is spinning like a top. It has achieved some kind of post-chaotic feat of stability, and now drifts smoothly back to the spot where it started: the center of the bowl. There, dead center, it spins like crazy, self-contained and untouchable, defying gravity, friction, and common sense.
On its aging shelf ...
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