Elephant auf 4 Eiern?

Okay, eggs are usually too complex.

The yt video also says: “The pressure must be uniform […] to be distributed. Since eggs always differ from each other, this is of course not possible. Theoretically but very well.

Let’s imagine a pencil standing on top. If a force is allowed to act perpendicularly on the 100% perpendicular pencil by the blunt, straight cut-off end of the pencil, this force will not be able to break the pencil. The tip of the pencil must be on “zero”. So physically in the infinite zero point. And if the force from above now directly on this theoretical zero point of the pencil plaster uniform in my opinion, the pencil cannot break. Probably this zero point is in the infinity, or “zero” is here as something like a limit value that goes against zero but will never reach (can).

And this is my question of understanding. In practice, of course, everything does not work. But in the mathematical, physical theory it should be.

We can replace the pencil, the eggs, also with a thin metal column, which is completely uniform in itself. The same assumptions apply there. When the acting force is completely perpendicular and uniform running through the object and acting on its “zero point”, then, yes, the elephant would have to be able to stand on the 4 eggs.

In the yt video it is also not possible to crush the eggs up and down with 2 fingers. This, however, only proves the stability of the eggs or their shell. There, however, the forces do not run evenly through the eggs. In order to produce a uniform course of forces here, the eggs and their structure would have to be separated into the infinity, in order to finally uniform Force distribution on the zero point to generate (100% of the acting force from above hit the zero point at the other end of the egg. Practically this is of course impossible, at least not with reasonable effort, but purely theoretically.

But I’ll make a mistake. Again: It’s about theory!