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physics, briefly forgetting it has rules, dressed up as a sphere made of nearly nothing
means Bubbles are thin films of liquid that trap a pocket of air or gas into round, floating shapes, the kind that rise in fizzy drinks or drift off a soapy wand.
from From "bubble," which English likely built as an imitative word — the sound of your own mouth making "buh-buh" mimics the soft pop and burble of rising air. It belongs to a noisy family of bubbling, burbling, blubbering words found across the Germanic languages, all of them basically the noise of liquid doing liquid things, frozen into letters.
- shape
- sphere because it minimizes surface area, lazily perfect
- pop speed
- film bursts at hundreds of meters per second
- sound
- pop is the released air, not the skin
- thinnest part
- top, where gravity drains the water down
- color
- rainbows come from light interfering with itself
great bubble barrier — underwater bubble curtain deployed in amsterdam canal to trap plastic waste since 2019
dot-com bubble — internet stock market crash that wiped out $5 trillion in value between 2000-2002
housing bubble 2008 — u.s. subprime mortgage collapse that triggered global financial crisis, home prices fell 30%