The next time you hear the phrase : “You can’t sink a battleship by blowing bubbles at it.” you’ll be able, with some degree of confidence, to inform the speaker that they’re probably wrong. A new US patent issued on Feb 12th 2013, describes what the inventors call a Bubble Weapons System. Fanciful though it […]
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Bubbles, balloons and maths clowns—oh my! (she says)
Investigator Patricia Jonas sent us this note: I was directed to a web site that says: “Imagine making maths fun using soap bubbles, balloons and a Maths Clown.” I do not want to imagine making maths fun using soap bubbles, balloons and a Maths Clown. I enjoy maths. But I find clowns disturbing. Very disturbing. […]
Guinness bubble/widget followup: limerick
A followup to yesterday’s post about “Beer bubble appreciation in Limerick“: Martin Eiger, the Limerick laureate, points to a Technology Review article about the new Guinness Stout beer bubble study. Tech Review notes that the study authors, who are mathematicians at the University of Limerick, and opens with this headline: “Mathematicians Reinvent The Beer Widget […]
Beer bubble appreciation in Limerick
To celebrate St. Patrick’s day in style (at least a certain kind of style, heavily influence by a love of physics), one can savor and digest these two studies about the properties of bubbles in Guinness Beer. (Thanks to investigators Tatiana Divens and Stanislav Volkov for bringing them to our attention.) “Bubble nucleation in stout […]