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Speed

2022/2/25
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The Pitch Drop Experiment is a long-running science experiment that demonstrates the properties of pitch, a material that appears solid but flows over time.

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We live our lives at human speed, we experience and interact with the world on a human time scale. In this episode, which first aired in its entirety in the winter of 2013, we put ourselves through the paces. We examine a material that exists between two states of matter, take a ride on the death-defying roller coaster that is the stock market, open up our internal clocks of thought, and achieve mastery over the fastest thing in the universe.

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