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Above
is Brittany, one of our
grandchildren, holding a dry bubble that I invented. Over the last thirty plus years my brother, Galen and I have invented several different kinds of drying soap bubbles. Just like the small drying
bubbles, these large bubbles
will heat up in the sun light and rise like a hot air balloon until the
bubble is out of sight.
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The
wonder of it
all. Brittany watches a giant soap bubble floating in the air. These
bubbles when dry are extremely light and can be guided in the air
simply by softly blowing on them.
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There is a barn full of bubbles
in every bottle! They blow from a wand just like ordinary soap bubbles but these dry in mid air! The soap bubbles are so light that the sun
heats them internally and makes them rise until they are out of sight. Where or
when they come down again is a mystery so if you see a dry bubble floating by it may have come
from Bremerton, Washington. A 3" bubble weighs just
3/10,000 of a gram as weighed in a lab on a Mettler gram scale. Just
think, a million miniature hot air balloons
in a single bottle of soap bubbles!
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Bet
you thought you would see a square bubble when cows fly! This was made
by making a square wire frame from paper clips and then dipping the
cube
into the bubble solution. Many other shapes can be made in this
way.
High school and college instructors use this to demonstrate principles
of physics and
architecture but their bubble shapes soon pop! Our
drying bubble shapes last indefinitely!
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The
bubbles carry a static charge so as they get close to another bubble
they suddenly get drawn together and
dock with each other. Large
stacks of bubbles and bubble chains can be made in this way.
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