The World's Longest Running Experiment: Pitch Drop Live Feed

[6Foot2]

Link: The Ninth Watch for the ninth Pitch Drop.

 

2 years of time lapse in 36 seconds:

 

Edited April 20, 2014 by 6Foot2
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[Ketlane]

Long running? Only 86 years, though perhaps it's the longest-running laboratory experiment....the Broadblak experiment on wheat at Rothamsted has been running since 1843 (or 1852 if you want to be purist about it!). That's a good few researchers' working lives......

[Trapper]

I'm sure for the past few centuries two blocks of different metals have been stacked on each other and are very, very slowly merging through some form of quantum mechanics which: a) I can't remember from A-Level Chemistry and B) Cannot find on Google!