The pitch drop experiment is one of the longest-running laboratory experiments in history, designed to demonstrate the extremely high viscosity of pitch, a substance that appears solid but is actually a very slow-flowing liquid. First set up in 1927 by physicist Thomas Parnell at the University of Queensland, the experiment involves a funnel filled with pitch that gradually forms and releases drops over the course of many years, with each drop taking roughly a decade to fall. The setup highlights how everyday intuition about solids and liquids can be misleading, revealing that some materials flow so slowly that their motion is imperceptible without long-term observation. It continues to run today, serving as a striking reminder of both the strange behavior of materials and the patience sometimes required in scientific inquiry.
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the morning after you went to taco bell
So nitella is a liquid ha
No one has ever actually seen one drop. You come in and the drop is just suddenly in the beaker. Apparently a janitor or someone once almost saw it, but stepped away to grab like a cup of coffee for just a few minutes and came back to see it had dropped.
Thats how long it takes for your mom to "finished"
No more fall damage yay!
Is THAT why the term "pitch black" is used?
You forgot to mention that the f**r died while waiting.
There was once where a scientist was watching the funnel and the pitch looked like it was about to fall soon. The scientist left for a coffee and within the 10 minutes he was away the pitch drop has fallen by the time he came back
Viscosity go brr
Whats the website to the live?