70 Year Old Experiment Proves Pitch Is Viscous
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This almost made me chuckle, but the misspelling of roll stopped the laugh.DVS BSTrD said:
Personally, this is why I love science. I'm curious to see what cool thing they'll start doing now only to figure out what it means in 2083.
, but it's nice that they let you use rte player tho.Wait, what? Seriously? A pitch drop experiment (which, if you'll read the link up in the original post you can verify) has been running in Queensland since the 1920s, they'd proven long before this drop that pitch is a liquid. What this report is saying is only that someone caught the drop on camera, and even then in a hideously misleading way.
The article is poorly headlined in the extreme. Either link to the initial pitch drop experiment ( Link here. [http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/pitchdrop.shtml]) which proved in 1984 that pitch was viscous (which, by now, would be 86 years in the making), or change the headline to state that this is the first time that pitch has been observed dripping. What's up there now is just straight up wrong.
EDIT: Science away!
Each and every liquid has a viscosity, which is a fancy way of saying how well it pours. there are several factors that go into viscosity - molecule size, polarity of molecules, cohesion between molecules in the substance, that sort of thing. It's why glycerin (a liquid) pours faster than water (another liquid) pours faster than honey (yet another liquid) pours faster than pitch (so thick and goopy it's often mistaken for solid).
The article is poorly headlined in the extreme. Either link to the initial pitch drop experiment ( Link here. [http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/pitchdrop.shtml]) which proved in 1984 that pitch was viscous (which, by now, would be 86 years in the making), or change the headline to state that this is the first time that pitch has been observed dripping. What's up there now is just straight up wrong.
EDIT: Science away!
It does. And it turns out pitch, at room temperature, is a liquid. Just a really viscous liquid. So viscous that it can be shattered. So people got confused because it flows reeeeeaaaaaalllllll sssssssllllllloooooowwwwww.Anoni Mus said:
Each and every liquid has a viscosity, which is a fancy way of saying how well it pours. there are several factors that go into viscosity - molecule size, polarity of molecules, cohesion between molecules in the substance, that sort of thing. It's why glycerin (a liquid) pours faster than water (another liquid) pours faster than honey (yet another liquid) pours faster than pitch (so thick and goopy it's often mistaken for solid).
Why did we need to know this, science?
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Intern is the universal term for the people that get to do the crappy jobs so their superior will like them enough to promote them.MinionJoe said:Undergrads, but yes.1337mokro said:
Having worked for a research professor and his group, I can tell you that that $10 still has to come from somewhere and someone has to fund the experiment in order for it to be paid. Because that money certainly isn't coming out of the PI's pocket! And that's not including the wages and benefits of the support staff and campus accounting department needed to keep the project running.
I can only shudder to think of how many account numbers and fund codes a seventy year experiment would go through in due course.
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Also that 10$ came from between the couch cushions. Of course the collection period was stretched out over those 70 years as well.
DNA is crazy stuff.OlasDAlmighty said:
I've heard of pitch, but only very rarely and usually in some sort of fantasy setting. I'll chalk it up to being an American thing.
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How is this relevant today? Most the information I could find say that while we USED to play with pitch to make stuff. We moved on to other materials, also: YOU LET SOMETHING NOBODY KNEW WHAT WAS CLEAN WATER AND TRANSPORT US!?! What more did you not research before using it. I hate to hear scientists come out and say "the origin of übercancer is potatoes"or ssomething. GLaDOS would be ashamed of you science.
How is this relevant today? Most the information I could find say that while we USED to play with pitch to make stuff. We moved on to other materials, also: YOU LET SOMETHING NOBODY KNEW WHAT WAS CLEAN WATER AND TRANSPORT US!?! What more did you not research before using it. I hate to hear scientists come out and say "the origin of übercancer is potatoes"or ssomething. GLaDOS would be ashamed of you science.