Curling

The stones that we see at the olympic games come from the same island off coast of scotland. The ice is really important to defining the path that the stone takes, which is what gives the sport its name. There are two opposing theory s and around what it is that makes a curling stone curl the way that it does. If you have some time take an empty glass bottle or beer bottle and just slide it forward on a table. It will move in a straight line if you set the bottle sliding as you kind of set it curling, effectively, like with a curler. So you set it spinning, if you rotate it anti-clockwise, when you