Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Day 235

It's uncanny but whatever be the starting position of Vidhi on bed when put to sleep — and it need's always be parallel to edges as is conventional for adults, which in our case corresponds to West-East direction — she will always orient herself South-North during course of night. The turn is so precise and perfect that one wonders if she's a magnet*.



To be scientifically sure, of course, this experiment has to be repeated on different bed with different orientation.









*and as Radhika says, magnets orients North-South so, if she is reverse-magnet.

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