During the week, I was listing the lessons I learned this
semester in order to decide which one to write about. However, yesterday I was listening to a radio
podcast about the speed principle. In
that podcast they mention an experiment performed by Australian
professor in Queensland University. The
main goal of the experiment which started in 1927 was to show how some daily
materials can have unexpected property using a matter called Pitch. However, Professor Thomas Parnell experiment took
another way. From the first day of the experiment
until now the pitch has dropped eight times only, and none of them were cached
by human for different reasons.
Therefore, they are trying to catch the coming drop, the ninth drop,
that is expected to fall soon. They have prepared three webcams* which broadcast
through the Internet to catch this rare moment.
What makes me consider this experiment a great lesson is
that the professor did not give up until now. He started his experiment in 1927,
and it still running until this day which made it one of the longest running
experiments in human history. Even
though he missed some of the drops while he was so close to catch them like the
one when left for 15 minutes to make a cup of tea, he continues.
