The Longest-Running Experiment In The World

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In the hallway of the University of Queensland in Australia, an unassuming little experiment is kept in a glass case. It’s not that interesting, until you know that it’s the longest-running lab experiment in the world, and is just about to turn 100 years old. It’s the Pitch Drop Experiment, and it teaches us a lot about the unseen world of long time scales.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - The Pitch Drop Experiment
6:20 - All About Pitch
9:00 - Other Long-Running Experiments
13:31 - To The Future
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