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"Scientists have been able to understand the unusual phenomenon of antibubbles - the rare, reverse form of normal bubbles - by forming them in beer.

 

Typical bubbles are thin films of liquid enclosing pockets of air, but antibubbles are a thin film of air which encloses pockets of liquid.

 

Belgian researchers said on Monday they could make antibubbles appear in a many different liquids - not just alcohol.

 

Dr Stephane Dorbolo details his team's work in the New Journal of Physics."

 

The full article is available from the BBC here.

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I've been through a few beers and I can't duplicate their results. This experiment is going to get expensive but I'll get it right. Some of the most fun research I've had in a while.

Just aman

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that is so cool!

I was wondering though, is it the same as those spheres of water that somtimes can be seen above the surface seemingly floating like a pond skater? it sounds similar.

nice find Blike :)

  • 3 weeks later...
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Shouldn't spheres of air rising in liquid have a different name from "Bubbles?" Drops are anti bubbles as well in this case...

  • 7 months later...
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So when a bubble comes into contact with an anti-bubble, do they annihilate one another and release energy?

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Anything at all like matter and anti-matter? Y'know, blow up a quarter of the planet since one guy has beer and another has soda?

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also, what is the point in this, it seems totaly pointless, why would anyone need or want to know about this... or is it just a random thing which some scientist noticed and is getting famous for. it has, seemingly, no practical use.

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also, what is the point in this, it seems totaly pointless, why would anyone need or want to know about this... or is it just a random thing which some scientist noticed and is getting famous for. it has, seemingly, no practical use.
Yeah, I also failed to see why it "perplexed" scientist. What is so mystical about anti-bubbles?
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it is just a demonstration of chemical bonding and surface tension, inside a bubble of air, well done!

 

so what ?

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