The Broom Riddle (Solution) ft. Kurt Hugo Schneider part 3/3

2:30 How can the longer side be more massive?  That's basically a can-you-think-outside-the-box puzzle.  Here are some outside-the-box possibilities:
 * The longer side doesn't actually stick further out, it's merely longer.  So we're distinguishing length measured along the broom from length measured perpendicular to the plumb line. Like:
    * The long side is curled up
    * The broom is bent and the long side goes almost straight up or straight down
  * We have a weird distribution of mass, like:
    * The longer side actually has almost all of its mass very near the pivot,
    * The shorter side has almost all of its mass very near the end
  * Some other force is also applying torque to your broom, like:
    * The broom is magnetic and you have a big electromagnet near one side
    * The broom is carrying electric current and aligned so that earth's magnetic field pulls the short side down.
  * The broom is very light and partly filled with a lifting gas such as  hydrogen.  Now our long side can be more 
     massive without being heavier,  since it's bouyant.
  * You are balancing the broom in some extreme tidal situation, such as near a neutron star.  I say "tidal" and not 
    "gravititional" because gravitational feels like a cheat - like if you have a black hole just under one side of your 
    broom, your plumb line isn't actually plumb because a plumb line should align with the local gravitational gradient, 
   and if you fix that and use an honest plumb line, you're back to the original situation, if somewhat closer to 
   spaghettification.   But with tidal forces, once your broom is not horizontal, it wants to get vertical, so  you could 
   theoretically balance the extra weight against the differential pull from the 
   tidal force, which seems like actually balancing the broom.

No doubt there is some clever answer I've missed.