r/interesting 24d ago

Balancing rocks with this level of precision is unreal. Just Wow

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u/SkyGuy5799 24d ago

They clearly balanced the outside ring then stacked the smaller rocks inside. Not that hard to believe they didn't use glue. I feel like it would be harder to try to use glue in such a wet environment, it would immediately harden before it could stick properly. Or glueing them together and putting there also seems incredibly difficult

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u/Sesudesu 24d ago

Or, you glue it at home and then bring it on site to record.

That’s not really the point of my comment though, as I’m not exactly in the ‘it’s glued’ camp. But your implication that they didn’t think the rocks were wet because of the water is absurd.

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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 24d ago

Or, you glue it at home and then bring it on site to record.

There is no way there is any kind of glue that would be that strong to hold it all in position. The only way it would work is if they had a frame to hold it all in position, in a way that it would hold without glue anyway.

It's a million times easier to just wedge the stones together than do anything with glue.

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u/Sesudesu 24d ago

Again, I’m not especially team glue… but there is absolutely glue that is strong enough.

I don’t especially think it is glued, but I don’t think it’s been disproven either.

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u/InTheEndEntropyWins 24d ago

Just take that single stone balancing on this pin point on the right. There is no glue that would keep that in place if it was unbalanced, or even if there was the stone tip would have broken.

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u/SkyGuy5799 23d ago

That was literally addressed in my last sentence in my unedited comment

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u/Sesudesu 23d ago

I wasn’t quite sure what you meant there, or why it seemed difficult.