Science geeks! Your opinion is needed.

[Revoltingest]

I say this is way cool.
Mrs Rev says it's uber-nerdy....

Pitch drop experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Who is right?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I don't care how nerdy it is... it's awesome.

 

[Reptillian]

Lord Kelvin started a version of this at the University of Glasgow in 1890 involving a block of pitch flowing down a wooden slide. As far as I know, that experiment is still running too.

 

[lunamoth]

Great - one more thing to keep track of.

[Is it wrong to feel a small thrill of excitement because the next drop is due to fall sometime in the next year or so?]

 

[cablescavenger]

I say this is way cool.
Mrs Rev says it's uber-nerdy....

Pitch drop experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Who is right?

I would have to side with Mrs Rev there mate.

 

[Me Myself]

I would say you are both right

 

[Skwim]

Great - one more thing to keep track of.

[Is it wrong to feel a small thrill of excitement because the next drop is due to fall sometime in the next year or so?]

No, but it is uber-nerdy.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Great - one more thing to keep track of.

[Is it wrong to feel a small thrill of excitement because the next drop is due to fall sometime in the next year or so?]

If we could say when that would happen with any precision, I'd consider making a stop in Queensland on my next vacation.

 

[Panda]

That's pretty awesome.

 

[apophenia]

My mind is like that. I get a new idea every decade or so. The next idea will prove that I'm a genius, for sure, but I'll be too old to care.

 

[Madhuri]

Oh cool, I've been to that campus. Really awesome university.
As for the awesomeness of the experiment, I guess I'm not geeky enough to understand why it's so cool. I kind of wish I was more of a geek..

 

[Erebus]

Ahh something besides politics that makes me both bored and angry

I say scrap the experiment and start working on recreating the dinosaurs.

 

[croak]

It's entertaining. And no one has witnessed a drop fall. See? Conspiracy.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Now does this only work in Australia ?
Perhaps all universities should try it.....

Glass is a super cooled fluid that has not crystallised.
Some say it flows some that it does not.
A drip experiment over several millions years would prove it ......