Hey Ray: Now, that's impossible!
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Some things seem impossible until you find a new way to do them. One example is trying to balance six nails on the head of a single nail!
Your first thought might be, "How would that even work"?
So, here is the setup for our experiment: we have a nail in a board, and it is sticking straight up. Now we want to balance six equally sized nails on the head of the nail in the board.
The first step is to start by laying one of the nails on the table.
We will add four more nails at this point. On one end of the nail, lay one nail over the original one, then add the second but on the other side.
Do the same thing on the pointy end of the nail that was originally put on the table.
Now, you take the final nail and lay it over top of the nails, but in the opposite direction of the one on the bottom.
Just pick up all the nails by grabbing the bottom nail.
From there, you set it on the head of the nail in the board. It balances very easily because all of the nails are basically pushing against each other, and the top nail contains this whole system preventing them from flipping or falling off.
The force of the nail on one side holds the nail on the other and vice versa.
So, scientifically, all the nails are connected to each other and now we use the center of gravity of this system or the point where the gravity is acting.
That center of gravity happens to be over the head of the nail in the wood, making something that seemed impossible, possible!
You can even do this experiment with more than six nails.
With the nails I had, I was able to balance 14!
