'...The longest-running scientific experiment in the world is the Pitch Drop ...' Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think there are numerous longer running scientific experiments than the Pitch Drop experiment... -Beverly Clock -Oxford Bell - Agriculture -The Scientific Method itself -Capitalism -Non-person legal entities -Selective breeding of different species, I guess that could just be 'domestication'. . . Even if you add in the caveat used by the Guinness World Record people, 'continuous', I don't think that really clears it up. Many of the previous list span a greater time without interruption. Also, who is to say the pitch didn't stop flowing momentarily? This is after all an experiment to better understand the way it moves and it doesn't sound as if there is high speed video equipment monitoring it.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I think there are numerous longer running scientific experiments than the Pitch Drop experiment...
-Beverly Clock
-Oxford Bell
- Agriculture
-The Scientific Method itself
-Capitalism
-Non-person legal entities
-Selective breeding of different species, I guess that could just be 'domestication'.
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Even if you add in the caveat used by the Guinness World Record people, 'continuous', I don't think that really clears it up. Many of the previous list span a greater time without interruption. Also, who is to say the pitch didn't stop flowing momentarily? This is after all an experiment to better understand the way it moves and it doesn't sound as if there is high speed video equipment monitoring it.