loftar wrote:Hasta wrote:a whole institution somewhere in US, the sole purpose of which was to observe, measure an calculate the process of a big chunk of solid tar
You're thinking of the pitch drop experiment, and there is no institute that is entirely devoted to this experiment; it's just locked away in some closet at the University of Queensland.
Yeah, that's the one, thanks. Been a while since I've heard about that stuff so I could've messed the details a bit.