Pitch drops for ninth time since 1927.

[Bradyns]

[QUOTE]On 24 April the ninth drop in the University of Queensland’s famous Pitch Drop Experiment separated during an operation to replace the beaker containing the previous eight drops.

Pitch Drop custodian Professor Andrew White said the ninth drop had run into the previous drops in the beaker and had backed up.

Professor White said he was genuinely curious to see how long the next drop would take to form from a clean reset.

Source:
[url]http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/04/pitch-drop-experiment-enters-exciting-new-era[/url][/QUOTE]

I guess this means [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1387933&p=44619289&viewfull=1#post44619289"]trickle-down economics[/URL] works..

[Fulcrum]

[url]http://www.theninthwatch.com/feed/[/url]

Heres a live stream.

What is the purpose of this experiment anyway?

[Rofl my Waff]

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;44630970][url]http://www.theninthwatch.com/feed/[/url]

Heres a live stream.

What is the purpose of this experiment anyway?[/QUOTE]
To show that liquids are liquids

[A Noobcake]

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;44630970][url]http://www.theninthwatch.com/feed/[/url]

Heres a live stream.

What is the purpose of this experiment anyway?[/QUOTE]

To show that pitch, a type of tar that seems solid at room temperature for all intents and purposes, is actually a liquid, having dripped nine drops in 83 years.

[Riller]

[QUOTE]Pitch Drop Experiment enters an exciting new era[/QUOTE]

Exciting indeed!

[James]

Isn't glass liquid too or an I mistaken?

[Lf751]

[QUOTE=A Noobcake;44630999]To show that pitch, a type of tar that seems solid at room temperature for all intents and purposes, is actually a liquid, having dripped nine drops in 83 years.[/QUOTE]

Watch out, the roads will eat you! ...If you stand still all your life.

[Riller]

[QUOTE=James xX;44631015]Isn't glass liquid too or an I mistaken?[/QUOTE]

No. Some people used to think this, because old windows are thicker at the bottom than at the top. This is, however, a result of non-perfect glassmaking, and that if you got glass thicker in one end than the other, it's only logical to mount it thick end down.

[Kickin Balls]

[QUOTE=James xX;44631015]Isn't glass liquid too or an I mistaken?[/QUOTE]

IIRC it used to be because of the way they forged glass but modern methods have taken steps to ensure it is 100% solid. Just try not to melt it in a furnace

[Ogris]

[QUOTE=James xX;44631015]Isn't glass liquid too or an I mistaken?[/QUOTE]

Glass is kind of a weird state of it's own, when heated up it's more like rubber fused with iron in the way it reacts, it's not quite a liquid.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass]Wikipedia can probably explain it better[/url]

[TheDecryptor]

I made a point of going to see this experiment the last time I was at UQ, it's interesting how long this experiment has been going for, and how it's been brought into the internet age.

[Killuah]

Te Wikipedia article for this is just rich for any scientifically interested reader, it's like really really good hearted humour.

[nouvellehalf]

Before I checked the thread I thought this was about musical pitch.

[KD007]

[QUOTE=Arctic-Zone;44631408]Before I checked the thread I thought this was about musical pitch.[/QUOTE]

My anthro friend says he recalls an article about how musical pitch got slightly sharper as the centuries went on. So as far as music goes, it's called the pitch raising experiment :v:
Not proven, though. Could have something to do with the fact that western music accepted equal temperament these past few centuries.

[nixnax123]

[QUOTE=KD007;44631425]My anthro friend says he recalls an article about how musical pitch got slightly sharper as the centuries went on. So as far as music goes, it's called the pitch raising experiment :v:
Not proven, though. Could have something to do with the fact that western music accepted equal temperament these past few centuries.[/QUOTE]

first of all why did you say he was anthro
and second of all that is wrong

[Interrobang]

[QUOTE=NixNax123;44631483]first of all why did you say he was anthro
and second of all that is wrong[/QUOTE]

obviously he means his friend's a furry

[KD007]

[QUOTE=NixNax123;44631483]first of all why did you say he was anthro
and second of all that is wrong[/QUOTE]

OK, equal temperament was inherited as a standard this [i]past century[/i]. And yes, my friend is anthro :v:

[Ziks]

I assumed he was an anthropology student or something.

If he's anthropomorphic you're saying human-like attributes are applied to him but he is non-human.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=James xX;44631015]Isn't glass liquid too or an I mistaken?[/QUOTE]

common science teacher misconception, its a crystal not a liquid

[_Kilburn]

[QUOTE=Sableye;44632099]common science teacher misconception, its a crystal not a liquid[/QUOTE]

Isn't glass specifically [i]not[/i] a crystal?

[quote]Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material that exhibits a glass transition, which is the reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline materials) from a hard and relatively brittle state into a molten or rubber-like state.[/quote]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass[/url]

If I understood this correctly, that's the whole point of glass. All glass-like materials are produced in such a way that they don't form crystals.

[KD007]

You guys are talking about matter states as if they don't depend on temperature.

[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]

Or pressure

[Uber|nooB]

[QUOTE=Sableye;44632099]common science teacher misconception, its a crystal not a liquid[/QUOTE]

Glass is definitely not a crystal; glass is a subset of amorphous (i.e. noncrystalline) materials

[James]

[QUOTE=KD007;44632357]You guys are talking about matter states as if they don't depend on temperature.

[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]

Or pressure[/QUOTE]

I think everyone (including myself) is assuming that we are talking about standard conditions here.

[KD007]

[QUOTE=James xX;44633305]I think everyone (including myself) is assuming that we are talking about standard conditions here.[/QUOTE]

Fair enough. At STP, most industrial kinds glass are said to be able do deform their shape to a certain extent, much like jello as previously mentioned in this thread. However, you can't MOLD it to anything without melting it first. It will shatter at one point.

[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]

I decided to read something outside of spergpunch. Take a look [b][url]http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html[/url][/b]

[b]The answer can be either, as I said, due to the tricky "glass transition" at STP. Just not [usually] crystalline solid. The conclusion mentions that the difference is semantic. Remove box, insert into rectum, please.[/b]

[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]

:))

[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]

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[sambooo]

[QUOTE=KD007;44633373][b]Remove box, insert into rectum, please.[/b]

[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]

:))

[editline]24th April 2014[/editline]

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Quoting this so you can't snip it

[turke]

[QUOTE=sambooo;44634128]Quoting this so you can't snip it[/QUOTE]

that'll show him