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The Wonder-Working Bubbles That Physics Can't Explain

Posted October 25, 2012 10:01 AM

FROM a distance, it is an idyllic scene. The small boat floats idly, its oars aloft. Sheltered from the sun by a blue-and-white striped awning, passengers busy themselves around a large silver tea-urn.

Move a little closer, though, and things don't look - or indeed smell - so rosy. The waters of the lake are fluorescent green, and the stench of decay wafts from its surface. Pleasure trips have been a rarity on Lake Tai since 2007, when the Chinese government declared the lake, some 100 kilometres west of Shanghai, a disaster area. A year of unusual drought following decades of unchecked pollution had choked the lake with cyanobacterial blooms.

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10/25/2012 3:46 PM

I do not understand this blog posting at all. The title seems to have nothing to do with the two teaser paragraphs. What is even more annoying though is that the link provides nothing but a repeat of the title and teaser paragraphs with a different link requiring a payment.

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10/25/2012 4:57 PM

I got the same thing so I did a quick google search and came up with this pdf which seems to be the entire article.

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10/27/2012 12:03 PM

I found this interesting:

"The bubble has maybe a thousand molecules inside it, and it's losing approximately 1 billion gas molecules per second," says Seddon. How can that be? The researchers could only suggest that something must be recycling the molecules back into the bubble, perhaps at the join where the bubble wall meets the surface on which it sits (Physical Review Letters, vol 107, p 116101)..."

Maybe they've found out what's causing the universe to expand???!!! Dark energy at work???

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10/29/2012 2:55 AM

"The bubble has maybe a thousand molecules inside it, and it's losing approximately 1 billion gas molecules per second,"

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Very interesting....and also eerily familiar.

...the bubble only has a thousand....and is losing a billion a second.

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One of two things must be happening:

1. the Chinese are supporting this unsustainable situation by buying molecule denominated bubble treasury debt.

or

2. the Chinese are now generating scientific allegories to poke fun at the US ('bubble'), and possibly reclaim some of their treasury bill investment by selling the 'research paper'.

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10/30/2012 8:40 AM

When you add the variable of time, it looses all of its charm, I can travel 16 miles at 100 MPH, so what ?.

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10/25/2012 6:38 PM

Why not mention the actual subject of the article?

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