Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Longest Running Scientific Experiment

In 1984, the European Journal of Physics published a report on the three longest-running scientific experiments. Here's a look at one - measuring the fluidity of high-viscosity pitch by counting the frequency of drops out of a funnel (they fall once every 8 or 9 years
�though no one has ever been around to see it happen).

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