Pitch drop experiment trinity The pitch drop experiment at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland was started in October 1944 by an unknown colleague of the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Walton while he was in the physics department of Trinity College. Begun in October 1944, the Pitch Drop experiment, at Trinity College Dublin's School of Physics, is one of the world's oldest continuously running experiments. In 2013, video footage of a drop in the Trinity pitch funnel was uploaded to YouTube, attracting over a million views. Pitch is a (very) viscous liquid, with a viscosity of 20-100 billion times the Jul 18, 2013 路 The Dublin pitch-drop experiment was set up in 1944 at Trinity College Dublin to demonstrate the high viscosity or low fluidity of pitch — also known as bitumen or asphalt — a material that appears to be solid at room temperature, but is in fact flowing, albeit extremely slowly. Jul 20, 2013 路 A decades-long experiment at Trinity College Dublin has been caught in the act of providing a new data point. After decades of waiting, the Pitch-Tar Drop at Trinity College Dublin has finally been witnessed Oct 26, 2023 路 The origin of the experiment is not known, though some presume it to have been created by the physics Nobel laureate and Trinity professor Ernest Walton, famed for splitting the atom. . This experiment, like the one at University of Queensland, was set up to demonstrate the high viscosity of pitch. Jul 18, 2013 路 The Dublin pitch-drop experiment was set up in 1944 at Trinity College Dublin to demonstrate the high viscosity or low fluidity of pitch — also known as bitumen or asphalt — a material that Jul 19, 2013 路 A scientific experiment first set up in 1944 has been caught on film for the first time ever. This curiosity of an experiment demonstrates that pitch is a material that flows - albeit it with an incredibly high viscosity. yriid gapis ecfry uau ujilqwi kmu wzf exi hhdkl bxsu