1) I like the pitch drop experiment even though it may be more boring than watching paint dry.

Pitch (ex: asphalt) is highly viscous liquids that appear in solid form. The best-known experiment version started in 1927 in the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

2) Pitch was heated and placed in a funnel in 1927 by Prof. Thomas Parnell. He let the pitch settle for 3 years and then cut the bottom of the funnel to let the pitch flow. 8 years after the cut, the first pitch dropped into the beaker.

3) After the 7th drop, the time it took for a drop has increased somewhat significantly. They believe the reason to be the airconditioning. Viscosity increases with lower temperatures thus a cooler temperature increases the time gap between drops.

4) A paper was written in 1984 and according to the calculations there, pitch is 230 billion times thicker than water. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/5/4/003

5) #bitcoin viscosity compared to fiat feels like pitch to water. Fiat is water in the funnel and that funnel continously gets filled. And bitcoin is the pitch in the original experiment with difficulty (temperature) that changes algorithmically.

6) Halvings feel similar to changes in the liquid pressure of pitch. P=hdg . Where P is pressure, h is height above, d is density and g is gravity. As more drops happen the pressure above decreases and eventually slows down the flow of the pitch.

7) At some point mining of 1 bitcoin will feel like pitch drops. The time it will take to add 1 new bitcoin to the circulating supply will be 18 days at halving round 24 (year 2104).