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The Most Exciting Video of Nothing Happening: Pitch Drop Experiment in 2013

 

If you're lucky, you may see what no one has seen before—no one has ever seen the drop fall.

 

John Mainstone, a physics professor at the University of Queensland and the experiment's current custodian, missed the last two drops by pure bad luck. Awaiting the eighth drip from a business trip, Mainstone secured a video surveillance system to trail the elusive drop. Alas, the video feed failed precisely during the fall of the eighth pitch-drop.

 

 


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