Reply to post: Re: What's the difference?

Broken lab equipment led boffins to solve a 58-year-old physics problem by mistake

PerlyKing

Re: What's the difference?

Well, "egg-shaped" or "oval" is often misused to describe ellips{e,oid}s. Eggs are usually bigger at one end than the other, which can lead to All Sorts of Trouble ;-)

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