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.
Physics is all fun and games at the Bubble Circus
Video by Physics Reimagined
13 May 2016
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Floating from room to room, a soap bubble mysteriously avoids its fate at every turn
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