Pictures show soap bubble bursting

[Greg Bernhardt]

Super slow motion photos of a soap bubble bursting. I'm impressed!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...res-soap-bubble-bursting-stunning-detail.html

 

[negitron]

Eh, the Time Warped guys did it better. Check out the segment starting at 3:55.

 

[junglebeast]

They were both interesting, Richard's showed the very interesting "slivers" that the water breaks into, which you can't see in the movie.

 

[negitron]

I'm not convinced that those aren't simply an artifact of the relatively slow shutter speed (good SLRs can get down below 1/8000th s easily) . My hunch is that those are actually fast-moving and roughly spherical droplets

 

[junglebeast]

MM...good point :)

 

[negitron]

What IS interesting about the stills upon a closer examination is that you can clearly see the droplets formed as the bubble's "skin" breaks apart are organized into well-defined striations rather than, as one might expect, distributed more or less randomly.

 

[GeorginaS]

Super slow motion photos of a soap bubble bursting. I'm impressed!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...res-soap-bubble-bursting-stunning-detail.html

That was super nifty!

 

[junglebeast]

What IS interesting about the stills upon a closer examination is that you can clearly see the droplets formed as the bubble's "skin" breaks apart are organized into well-defined striations rather than, as one might expect, distributed more or less randomly.

Now if you can imagine analyzing that striation pattern and using it to form an inverse reconstruction of the fingerprint of the person who popped the balloon, you're on the level with modern cosmologists.

 

[Loren Booda]

Hadn't Harold Edgerton photographed such phenomena decades ago? (I also wonder whether there are any biological applications to this study in surface tension.)