Engineers have found a way to stop the fascinating motion of the colors on a bubble and thanks to them for sucking the heart and soul out a one of the first joys a kid ever knows, huh? (Science Daily: Pop science: Engineers stop soap bubbles from swirling)
Maybe this seems trivial ... unless you're the kid who can only make boring bubbles now ... but there's some Deep Strange in the science of bubbles. But don't take me word for it, nooooo ...
"The colors on the bubbles indicate the thickness of the film, so you have these valleys and hills that are in a geometrical frustrated state on a surface that itself is ephemeral," said lead author Saad Bhamla.
Now you know this is going to get weird. The intriguing part is how much science has gleaned from bubbles and what became of that knowledge.
Miscellaneous gratuitous political cheapshot: it's Washington's role to blow bubbles and it's the role of science to study what the bubbles do. Note: Washingtonian bubbles rarely do anything.
The researchers made a video of what their 'frozen bubbles' looked like and apparently they were quite beautiful. I did not notice a link to it in the article.
We won't be quite clever enough to pull any sci fi out of these but there's a whole lot of Zen in studying the tiniest, most innocuous things to derive great insights ... just watch any kid playing with them.
Maybe this seems trivial ... unless you're the kid who can only make boring bubbles now ... but there's some Deep Strange in the science of bubbles. But don't take me word for it, nooooo ...
"The colors on the bubbles indicate the thickness of the film, so you have these valleys and hills that are in a geometrical frustrated state on a surface that itself is ephemeral," said lead author Saad Bhamla.
Now you know this is going to get weird. The intriguing part is how much science has gleaned from bubbles and what became of that knowledge.
Miscellaneous gratuitous political cheapshot: it's Washington's role to blow bubbles and it's the role of science to study what the bubbles do. Note: Washingtonian bubbles rarely do anything.
The researchers made a video of what their 'frozen bubbles' looked like and apparently they were quite beautiful. I did not notice a link to it in the article.
We won't be quite clever enough to pull any sci fi out of these but there's a whole lot of Zen in studying the tiniest, most innocuous things to derive great insights ... just watch any kid playing with them.
Om, om, om ...
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