Monday, March 7, 2011

THE PITCH DROP EXPERIMENT

John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/pitchdrop.shtml


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