"Over the years, the identity of the scientist who began the experiment was forgotten, and the experiment lay unattended on a shelf where it continued to shed d

"Over the years, the identity of the scientist who began the experiment was forgotten, and the experiment lay unattended on a shelf where it continued to shed drops uninterrupted while gathering layers of dust. Physicists at Trinity College recently began to monitor the experiment again. Last April they set up a webcam so that anyone could watch and try to be the first person ever to witness the drop fall live." - http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-slowest-moving-drop-caught-on-camera-at-last-1.13418 http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-slowest-moving-drop-caugh...