Physics is supposed to be predictable. Drop a ball, and gravity pulls it down. Heat water, and it boils. Light travels in straight lines. Yet throughout history, scientists have encountered ...
Sticky challenge One of the 37 pitch-drop experiments sent by Trinity College Dublin’s School of Physics to secondary schools all over Ireland. (Courtesy: Karl Gaff, TCD School of Physics) Nothing is ...
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The longest-running lab experiment on Earth has produced nine drops in 98 years, and nobody has ever seen one fall
Most experiments are designed to produce a result within the working life of the person running them. This one was not, though its creator does not appear to have realized that at the time. In 1927, ...
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