Professor Thomas Parnell, the first Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland, initiated the Pitch Drop experiment in 1927 to showcase the surprising properties of everyday materials.
The National Pitch Tar Drop Event, run by Trinity's School of Physics in collaboration with the AMBER Research Ireland Centre and the Institute of Physics. will see a School in every county ...
it only takes a tenth of a second for the drop to dislocate and fall. Seeing it happen is so rare that in the 83 years that an even older pitch experiment has been running at the University of ...