# The Pitch Drop Experiment

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitch-drop-experiment/128126>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 12, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitch-drop-experiment/128126 "2002-09-12T16:20:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitch-drop-experiment/128126/1 "2002-09-12T16:20:34Z")

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> **[Pitch Drop experiment](https://smp.uq.edu.au/pitch-drop-experiment)**

Fascinating! You can smash Pitch to pieces with a hammer, yet it is actually fluid!

“In the 69 years that the pitch has been dripping no-one has ever seen the drop fall.”!? It looks like the Eighth drop is about to fall and I plan to watch it.

[2 hours later]

Um, never mind. I won’t be the first to watch it fall. 😉

They should change the phrase “like watching paint dry” to “like watching pitch drop”. LOL!

🙂

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