{"id":13169,"date":"2013-02-15T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13169"},"modified":"2013-02-15T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T08:00:52","slug":"heres-the-windup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13169","title":{"rendered":"Here&#039;s the Windup \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/2013\/02\/the-most-exciting-video-of-nothing.html\">The Most Exciting Video of Nothing Happening: Pitch Drop Experiment in 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re lucky, you may see what no one has seen before\u2014no one has ever seen the drop fall.<\/p>\n<p>John Mainstone, a physics professor at the University of Queensland and the experiment&#8217;s current custodian, missed the last two drops by pure bad luck. Awaiting the eighth drip from a business trip, Mainstone secured a video surveillance system to trail the elusive drop. Alas, the video feed failed precisely during the fall of the eighth pitch-drop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Exciting Video of Nothing Happening: Pitch Drop Experiment in 2013 If you&#8217;re lucky, you may see what no one has seen before\u2014no one has ever seen the drop fall. John Mainstone, a physics professor at the University of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}