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Physics is all fun and games at the Bubble Circus

A collaboration between the University of Paris-Sud’s Laboratory of Solid State Physics and the designer Alexandre Echasseriau, the brief and lively Bubble Circus explores some of the more enchanting physical properties of soap, water and bubbles.

Video by Physics Reimagined

13 May 2016
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