[Fig.] Lasting for hundreds of years: Unveiling the longest-running scientific experiment_Scientific Experiment

by yilong on 2009-03-10 13:33:43

According to foreign media reports, the pitch drop experiment is a physics experiment which seems so long that people can hardly believe. It aims to measure the flowing speed of a drop of asphalt during years or even hundreds of years. The most famous one was started in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland in Australia and now this experiment is still going on and may last for hundreds of years.