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the extended death of bubbles in the riverside air may be attributed to the combination of heat and low air moisture

Posted in paintings by icecreamwithyou on July 12, 2008

it is interesting to notice that soap bubbles in the riverside air live longer as oil suspensions than as water + surfactant solutions. this comes from constant observation of the lenght of stay of a buble and the rate at which a bubble pops or disintegrates into the air.

bubbles blown into a room which can be crossed in five steps, also open to the external environment through a door sized window in the city of riverside take a decisive diaphanous dive into the floor. usually they disintegrate into the air by blurring their interphase and becoming part of the thick particular fluid which i propose might be happening by voronoi tesselation, since no debris from the bubble is to be seen fall on the ground.

voronoi tesselation has been defined by Icke & van de Weygaert in 1991 to be the random distribution of a points around a plane, each point representing the center of a sphere of uniform expansion. so when spheres intersect, they form an interphase and we can see the result of that as mousse, or foam called voronoi foam. this may also be attributed to explosions and the formations of galaxies, to bubblebaths, to mixing paint, to photography printing, to coloring, to making soup…

and most importantly, to pompas de jabón dissipating into the air.

so, to illustrate my hypothesis that air quality affects the lifespan, strength, and quality of soap bubbles I propose the followig course of study. further research would lead this hypothesis to determine the effects of the composition of breathable air on the mammalian cell membrane both internally and externally, as well as the importance of these properties in the immediate gratification of the female woman

proposed materials and methods

to determine the identities of particles in the air, a gas chromatographer… i think any will do since they all do the same thing :) no nanothech there.

to measure the densities of the gases mixed in the air, a raman spectrometer.

a modified light microscope with camera to observe, measure, and record the physical behavior of the bubbles studied… someting in the range of 50-100 megapixels might suffice with appropriate imaging softwar

to measure the pattern of tesselation during the pop point, i have yet to obtain the name of the machine… physics people are keeping too much to themselves these days :D

a voice recording pocket machine, to interview self-identified latinas

a pocket-sized digital camera to photograph each woman interviewed

would YOU happen to have these machines and laboratory / desk space that i could borrow for the lenght of this study?

**UPDATE**

two conversations have begun to modulate my experimental setup by their interesting theoretical provenances.

  1. the possibility for a mathematical illustration as more plausible than physical observation, more economical and more boring but a proper virtual model could replace the need to observe and create a theoretical experiment using the laws which we can measure
  2. experimenting with different materials to make a hydrophobic-hydrophillic layer that would maintain the life of the bubble… but this would render the soap bubble a ball, which it is, but doesn’t perform the functions of a soap bubble

So I have decided to explain myself much better. I want to determine the environmental requirements for breathing air that would be moist enough to allow the soapbubble to live in the air and move slowly, but dirty enough to absorb the bubble’s moisture and dissipate the surfactant into the surrounding air, where the soap stays suspended until its entire disintegration. That is to say that the bubble doesnt pop and the soap does not just fall to the ground to make part of dust.

Gas chromatography of air pollutants at different air densities would provide a starting point to creating the optimal gaseous environment in regards to the measured density of the soapbubble constituents using liquid chromatography.

Also, precipitation tests would be necessary to determine which air particles may precipitate a substrate when combined with soap bubble chemicals. Because we are attempting to prevent that exactly! :)

SoOoOo these preceding steps would need to be quantised, normalised, and re-tested in experimental practice to obtain any mathematical material that would be helpful in designing mini environments in which to test soap bubbles in real time.

Then gas experiments would follow to determine presence or absence of chemicals.

It is possible that viewing bubbles through a microscope or high-power recording equipment would aid in determining the proper disintegration of the soap bubble, but it will be a harder task to prove voronoid tesselation of the soap and water molecules into the volume of the gas contained in the enviroment simulation.

** update **

ok so voronoid tesselation can be explained mathematically from the readings the experimental setup would provide!

now onto gathering formulae and definitions :)

 

***** update ********

voronoid tesselation as observed by a sculptor:

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  1. LEASTYGET said, on October 9, 2008 at 3:17 am

    well done, guy


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