Waiting for the Drop
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@@meh3247 You can use the link to get the book info & then buy it through an independent bookstore. If they don't carry it, you can special order it. You might even be able to special-order it over the phone or through their website. Searching DuckDuckGo for "how to find your local independent bookseller" pulled up websites that have them mapped.
Unfortunately I can't just give you the websites for the UK & Ireland or the US, because for some reason CZcams doesn't let me post them anymore. [shrug]
tintinnabulation...thanx
thanks for the recomendation
needed a new book
@@geekdivaherself I replied with the ISBN numbers for this book, but my comment was deleted. Clearly this channel is in the thrall of Amazon, which is why I'm unsubscribing.
Further clarification on the glass being a "liquid". It's not a liquid, it's an amorphous solid at low temperatures (normal room temp) and only exhibits flow past its softening point (around 700+ degrees C onwards) up until its melting point at around 1200 to 1400 degC. But for all intents and purposes, it is solid below that temperature. The idea that it's liquid comes from the fact that the traditional definition of a solid is that of a material with a crystalline structure. But glass is still a solid just not your typical solid.
Source: I'm a chemist who worked in a glass manufacturing plant for 4 years as part of composition control with involvement in QA.
Wasn't it also mentioned because some very old church windows would have a bit of a "flow" from the top?
@@VincentGroenewold That apparent flow is not flow, but a result of the glass-making technology of the time.
@@anothersquid plz elaborate further good sir 🙏
@@anothersquid scrap that, Simon did for you. Lol.
@@fatherofdragons4880 Lol, I haven't watched yet... saved for later :)
This video is proof that Simon can keep our attention even when talking about pitch dropping from a beaker. 😊
To me, it's proof that great things can be achieved while stoned.
To me it is proof that these people are the bitc**s of Amazon.
Try posting the ISBN numbers for the book so people can choose a more ethical source to buy it from, and watch your comment disappear.
Simon Whistler is owned and operated by Jeffrey Bezos. All of his channels are.
please.
*from a funnel into a beaker.
this is too serious of a topic to get the details wrong
We are waiting for you to drop... the casual criminalist notebooks! XD
Lmao you legend. But so true
With this American inflation CC books will be the new currency as crypto crashes
Some of us are still holding out hope that the duo of tiny humans hasn't beaten so much will out of fact boy that we may get an epic blaze with a paper script and pacing
I tell you what, he had better have a 100 million of them, because if they sell out before I get my hands on at least two, im gonna be upset.
@@FAtE_454 don't forget the "AM I RIGHT PETER's?" and script slapping, while Danny sprinkles in plenty OGBB references and Sam does his thing with the finest vintage memes.
I'm also always baffled by the purely unfortunate circumstances that caused the drop to not be able to be witnessed
Taking bets as to what event will cause us to miss the next drop 😉
I love how Simon is so proud of his team that he advertises their other projects on his channel like this.
It's too bad we all know enough about the story they wrote that there's no point in buying the book.
I’ve spent many hours watching and waiting for the UQ pitch to drop. I watched it on webcam and in person. Good times.
When the drop was close, everyone I knew at UQ had a window open with the webcam’s image on it. The building used to be open at all hours of the night and one of the cameras faced outwards. So, if you lived nearby, say, and had gone for a kebab at 11pm, you could pop into the engineering building and wave to all the people watching at home. Then you’d get a flurry of messages saying ‘I saw you on the pitch drop camera!’
That is so cool!
I'm confused as to why the Wales experiment, running from 1914, isn't counted as the longest-running. Just because it's thicker pitch and it hasn't had a drop yet doesn't mean the experiment isn't running. 🤷🏼♀️
We get excited about something similar to watching paint dry... You people are such beautiful nerds.
It's crazy that of all of Simon's awesome channels I've followed for these last 3-5, shaved face to perfected bearded, years, "Today I Found Out" is the one that I first discovered. At the time, I didn't realize that the Top Tenz channel I subbed and loved wasn't just a look alike, but another awesome channel from the Fact Boy Legend of House Whistler. Now, I'm entertained daily with Simon's 48 channels while I'm at work. Bio, War, Geographics, into the shadows, decoding the unknown, casual criminalist, mega and side projects etc. Man literally owns CZcams now and never had a bad or boring video.
And I now know that square space has perfect templates for websites, hello fresh replaces grocery shopping except in Prague, VPNs allow people in other countries to watch Mission Impossible like us Americans and skillshare has anything I want to learn and never write down or share your crimes. Am I Right Phillip?! Legend
He doesn't "literally" own CZcams!
@@the-scamp that's what they want you to believe
@@the-scamp I share your annoyance! Another example of the many misuses, abuses and misunderstandings of the word "literally", borne of ignorance
@@the-scamp whoa Big Brain. Thanks for correcting me. Clearly I believed he "literally" owned CZcams. I also thought Jen had 35% ownership with final say of the algorithm's results. Like Dr Spock, I am incapable of sarcasm. So I'm Glad you were here to clear that up for all of us....
@@misterflibble6601 you are annoyed by sarcasm from strangers on a CZcams video comment? I sure wish my life was lacking any real responsibilities enough to get worked up with something "literally" that irrelevant. When you get a real life and start your journey as an adult, I hope you can survive bigger challenges than this. I would hate to see what traffic or wait times at the department of motor vehicle does to you. At this rate, you will pass out from that level of anxiety.... Good luck smooth brain
The TCD experiment is currently on display in the Berkeley library.
I will forever maintain that my checking it every time I pass by is not a waste of time.
Two similar subjects to tackle:
- The Clock of the Long Now, which has a “day” of 10,000 years
- John Cage’s “as slow as possible” and the pipe organ that will play the usually-hour-long piece of music over the next 600 years
I have a certain level of respect for John Cage as he has the faith that centuries in the future, there's going to be somebody to show up at the right time to play the notes. Can you imagine being a professional musician and botching the one or two notes you were hired to play in a piece that spans generations? But, no pressure.
You said the 4th drop happened in May 1962... at which point the experiment was forgotten until being rediscovered in 1961.
Apparently the REAL discovery here is pitch's incredible ability to travel backward in time 😅
Thought I had misheard that.
"mom this is not wasting time, it is for science so I will keep staring at the droplet till it drops"
“I’m running a science experiment to see if my room will clean itself, mum!”
In classic optics manufacturing it's crucial to know how much the pitch flows at which temperature, to anticipate error when doing optical polishing using cerium oxide.
These days there is also cnc polishing and plasma based etching for extreme precision.
But using optical pitch is still preferred by many.
There's one of these in a cupboard somewhere in almost every University in the UK, and many more abroad. They all simultaneously pertain to be the "oldest running experiment in the world". In reality they were all started at sometime between 1900 - 1940 as something of an in-joke, or perhaps as a bit of old-timey outreach. The actual oldest known surviving funnel-type experiment was found in Aberystwyth University, and was started in 1914, but used a significantly more viscous pitch, and so has not had a single drop yet.
The university of Glasgow has a contemporaneous funnel-type experiment on display in the physics department common room, and they also have Lord Kelvin's original tests from the 19th century in the museum.
As a chemistry instructor I love telling students this story because the series of accidents stopping the drop from being recorded resembles nothing so much as the Lord of the Swamp bit from Monty Python.
I walked past this every week while I was an undergrad. They said they were expecting a drop that year…
It's wild to think that one of the pitch drop experiments could end around the time the other gets it's second drop.
It bothered me they didn't just lower the base on the original experiment instead of swapping the beaker. Idk why.... seems like a better solution.
I heard about this when I was a kid. When I was studying at UQ I accidentally found it on the ground floor of some random building with a bunch of lecture halls. This was back in 2006. They must have moved it since then.
That would have been the Parnell building named after some guy who did something or other.
Some people watch paint dry.
Today I found out:
Thank you from Brisbane Australia. Had no idea 💚
This was a really good episode. I didn't know about a lot of these experiments. It makes me happy that people are content to refuse immediate gratification and allow their endeavors to pass on to others' care.
There is a longer experiment going on at Michigan State University where Dr Beal stored seeds from various weed seeds over 140 years ago. Every 20 years they dig up a bottle and see how many of them are still viable.
Oh cool! Congratulations Gilles Messier!! Will look forward to reading it :)
I love the weirdness of the pitch experiment
The notion that glass is a liquid is a misconception that has caught on pretty widely; your earlier description of an amorphous solid is the most accurate descriptor.
I graduated from Michigan State in 2000 with a degree in Civil engineering in the fall semester. I remember an article in the campus newspaper about the experiment and found it very interesting. MSU was sometimes referred to as a “cow college” but as I had worked in agriculture before and after in agriculture although lately reduced to a flock of chickens, occasional meat turkeys and a good sized vegetable garden I would say I landed up in the right place. I wouldn’t have fit in with the hash bashers in 2A.
Thanks Simon for mentioning my Alma Mater. GO GREEN GO WHITE!!!.
Not quite as long as some of these, but still ongoing for 63 years and perhaps worthy of its own episode, is the Russian biological experiment in the domestication of foxes. As each subsequent generation becomes more human-friendly, it also acquires specific physical traits
I live in Brisbane, and I remember the excitement in 2013/2014 leading up to the Ninth Drop, with T-shirts like "I like to watch"
Ahhhh, Good! Something to do while I'm waiting for a certain criminalist notebook to become available.
I just got done watching one of Simons old videos from 6 yrs ago. Holy crap! Simon seemed like a child back then without the beard and the bass in his voice. It was like watching someone else.
Gilles managed to escape the Blazement and write a novel.
Maybe there's still hope for Danny.🧐🧐🧐🧐
Sorry to say Danny has no hope for escape. After the last attempt Simon adjusted his security around his cell in the blazement. Poor Danny is now under 24hr watch (Allegedly)
@@avalanche1990 Just like the pitch experiment, he now has multiple webcams trained on him.
This sounds like something that I would do just to make a weird decoration.
It sounds like going to the bathroom after eating a loaf of bread.
Never thought I'd see this channel cover something I've actually seen in real life! And I was a student at the University of Queensland during one of the infrequent (understatement?) pitch drops.
Another fascinating video. I'd heard of the Australian pitch experiment, but didn't really know anything about it.. very interesting! Great job Simon and team 😊👏💯
Interesting stuff as always. I would like to see the blooper outtakes of how many times it took him to pronounce the extremely hard to pronounce words
What about the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Morrow plots?
This is an experimental agriculture field started in 1876. On section has been growing corn with no fertilization or crop rotation since 1876. The corn is just tiny shoots tgat never has enough energy to produce any ears of corn. Other sections have crop rotation or early forms of fertilizer--all in all a fascinating demonstration of how one crop exhausts the soil.
That book sounds incredible, congratulations.
aw man, I thought Simon was releasing his mixtape
I thought he was releasing his criminal notebook!
Bell, Bell Bell, BBell Bell Bell-end.
Already see another video about this drop. Nice to see another video about this experiment.
Not necessarily a scientific experiment but isn't there a lightbulb in a Boston firehall that's been on since Edison's time?
Yay, I love it when Otago Uni gets mentioned because I can go in there and find things.
Iv been waiting for this drop since i learned about it on the science channel, just 4 more years. I had nearly totally forgotten about it until this video.
Right up there with watching grass grow at its blazing speed.
You sir, are a wonder. How you an deliver that performance seemingly without taking a breath, is absolutely amazing.
Imagine streaming it on twitch and a drop happened. Everyone will be spamming "Pog" on chat. Truly a human moment.
"It's like watching paint dry." "At least it's not like watching tar drop."
I'm pretty sure that's the first time I got really interested in anything advertised on a yt video. The book sounds fun, i think I'll get it
Glass may not flow in cold England but in Colorado it most certainly does!
In regards to three webcams standing watch, I hope that at least one is on a separate power circuit and/or that they are plugged into uninterruptible power sources (U.P.S.) in case the public power grid goes down.
The average pitch drop is still quicker then the time between Peter Ebdon's shots
Sounds a bit like waiting for pears to ripen. You watch and check over and over and the moment you look away, it's mush
The hell I won't! ... I'll break-in to that place an use a torch to heat up the pitch drop container to speed up the drop so it'll fall before I die! 🤣
If you see a bunch of people standing around staring at pine trees....
My former lecturers were the one's in charge of this experiment. One of which was John Mainstone.
At some point in the future, we will no doubt find out that the pitch is dropping faster than expected in one of these experiments because some prankster secretly introduced small amounts of alcohol vapor into the sealed chambers over a period of years, reducing the viscosity of the pitch!
Confusius say: "If you want to see drop fall, move to England."
Funnily enough watching the thumbnail of this video is the same as watching the live footage! You won't be able to see the drip change in size at all and you'll never see it drop!
That was a really well done video. I thought "oh its like some asmr/oddlysatisfying schtik." And then I learned the point, and other examples of similar points. Anyway really enjoyed it
8:58 I also have those scientific 'Aaaah' moments, when I take a poop. what a relief 'Finally'
A watched drop never falls
What is also funny about this is everyone in Brisbane from road workers to lawyers all know about this experiment here in Brisbane. Plus in Brisbane we have birth to the band The Go Betweens……. We are an unusual bunch here in Brisbane
Quirks and Quarks did an episode of this just before a pitch drop back in the 80's. I remember listening to it on CBC.
Pointless drinking game: Take a shot every time the drop, drops.
When pitch is stripped from a roof the dust is an insanely irritating to the eyes & skin. Leaned this the hard way.
Have to ask...the Zamboni piles running the Oxford bell experiment - did that Italian gentleman invent anything else, ice-wise?
How much u wanna bet that it drops when the dude watching it is going for food, to sleep, or off to shit and they miss it cause the power goes out and the camera is down hahahaha major L incoming I feel it Danny……
This is no longer an experiment. It WAS an experiment. But the purpose of the experiment has long since been fulfilled. It is now just a novelty.
I love those experiments. Sound fascinating. I could watch that shit for hours and hours.
A neat analogy of the difference between glass and silica crystals is a Lollipop vs rock candy. Amorphous solids like glass and hard candy (or boiled sweets) have irregular organization of their molecules; crystalline solids like silica and rock candy have a regular pattern to their molecules. But, they're both solids and do not flow like liquids.
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So they managed a 20 minute power cut to coincide with an eight year cycle?
i would just set up an experiment every week so in 7 years they would all start falling regularly
"Mom I'm not sleepy! Just one more drop and I will go to sleep!"
Video recording this experiment in slow motion has been deemed unnecessary.
Reminds me of Brian Eno's Millennium Clock.
i remember walking pass that display often when i was studying there. never knew later on it was connected to an experiment as i thought it was just a model.
As an alumnus of Michigan State University, I was glad that you mentioned Dr. Beal's seed experiment.
A 16 minute video about a drop? That’s worth a “like” sight unseen.
Watching this, I felt compelled to eat a bowl of prunes. Several cups of water. And, fiber...
Probably going to order that book. I still dream about running away to the sea . I'm just so in debt now they would probably restart the East India company just to come after me 🤣
The drop is just too shy to do its thing in front of witnesses.💧
Great video. Didn't know anything other than the pitch experiment.
And this teaches us something about time. The vastness of the universe is almost unimaginable. Traveling at fantastic speeds, it took Voyager 1 35 years to reach interstellar space, that is traveling beyond the heliosphere of our Sun at about 14 billion miles. Compared to the size of our universe this is completely irrelevant.
"longest running singular experiment" is perhaps accurate, although edible plant experiments (improvement) in the quest for food security...has been running for thousands of years?
Perhaps the lifetimes of dedication to keeping people fed is worthy of a video(s)? It's such an exhaustive story, it could be a whole new channel that informs people where the food they eat truly comes from (hint, it doesn't grow on a grocery store shelf..)
THANKS FACT BOY!! Now I don't have to read that book! :)
Also, 1979 didn't seem THAT long ago.
Lord Kelvin would make a good subject for a video. While a brilliant scientist, he had a touch of blindness in some areas. Like geology. He knew how fast heat dissipates so the earth could not be older than a couple of hundred thousand years in spite of the geological evidence. And then there was heavier than air flight.
I was once told that plate glass is also a liquid. Windows have been measured to be falling with the bottom of a pane being fatter than the top. Even modern glass.
This is unquestionably your best video title ever. Props.
The cambridge bell has been running for 179 years... so not the longest running science experiment
Aberystwyth has been running one since 1914... so not even the longest pitch drop...
Viscosity at it's fiercist!
So how does pitch flow in space? Would be an interesting experiment 🤔
It’s already in space
Here I was thinking this video was going to be about water torture 😂
you aught to do a top 10 video on the longest ongoing science experiments Simon.
Lol@Simon:
"glaRss"
I had thought this experiment was british for some reason... it being australlian fully explains the comical struggle to witness this.
If glass doesn't flow at room temperature, then why is it that so much older glass is so distorted when you look through it? And by older, I mean the '20s after the basic process had largely been perfected, it wasn't always so distorted that as you move past it, the things behind it appear to move weirdly, right?
The glass had those streaks in it when it was brand new. It was created by blowing a bubble, then cutting it open and flattening it. In the 1950's manufacturers started using the float glass technique that didn't create streaks. They pour the molten glass on molten tin, and slowly cool it. That is why modern glass is perfectly smooth.
2:50 AAAAAAACTshualy! 3:05 Nevermind.
Pitch up!
Pitch up!
It was oddly satisfying to watch it drop.