The Science of Bubbles (Full Science Documentary) | Spark

Physicist Dr. Helen Czerski takes us on an amazing journey into the science of bubbles. Bubbles may seem to be just fun toys, but they are also powerful tools that push back the boundaries of science.
The soap bubble with its delicate, fragile skin tells us about how nature works on scales as large as a solar system and as small as a single wavelength of light. Then there are underwater bubbles, which matter because they are part of how the planet works. Out at sea, breaking waves generate huge plumes of bubbles which help the oceans breathe.
From the way animals behave to the way drinks taste, Dr. Czerski shows how bubbles affect our world in all sorts of unexpected ways. Whether it's the future of ship design or innovative new forms of medical treatment, bubbles play a vital role.
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[@GoodYearForLiving]

It's inspiring to watch scientists expand our understanding of the world around us with something as "simple" as studying bubbles.

[@kennyolson9989]

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[@spvillano]

Not all that simple or innocent. Cavitation bubbles destroy propellers on water vessels and pumps.

[@windsorien4130]

Dr Helen Czerski, Thank you for your informative program, I would like to add that I noticed a bug feeding itself under water and in order to breath, it carried a bubble of air under itself all the way to the bottom of the pond.

[@kimsparkmanobantherevoluti7876]

@windsorien That's so interesting , your curious about such things , that's incredible

[@asterixnme5676]

This was beautiful and so informative. And to think I came here to try and answer my six year old niece's question about why a bubble floats or rises up. A child's curiousity taught me something🙂🙏🏽

[@AndrejTelisman]

This documentary shows how one small simple instrument of nature (bubble) have so huge impact on everyday life. How simple thing has so complicated effect. The way scientists, doctors and engineers use this knowledge to manipulate, shape and modifies theres area of work was interesting to see, and advancements that is here and will come is exciting.

[@rafaelaguilar5967]

I will not look at bubbles the same way anymore. Thank you for such a wonderful and interesting presentation,

[@TropicalCoder]

Very nice. I enjoyed her enthusiasm for her work.

[@brendanh8193]

Brilliant. Makes me want to get back into science. For my masters, I studied the effect of sound on fluidised bed bubbles. For my PhD, I studied bubbles in powder metallurgy. There are so many more things that science does with bubbles.

[@sreyasingh3755]

Thank you! I am absolutely amazed by the amount of information we can gather just by examining the nature of bubbles. Truly phenomenal :)

[@jamesyboy4626]

This is my 2nd time coming back to watch This, this documentary was really good I wish all people were this enthusiastic about there work.

[@ShokaLion]

I watched this when it was put on TV in 2013, and it was amazing. I still remember this documentary well. Really really excellent.

[@peterwedge6550]

Watched this fascinating documentary a few years ago on BBC4 and blown away by it! Now after a couple of recent TIAs I received a letter to say I am having a bubble echo to look for a hole in my heart. I am so excited! :)

[@nemod3338]

Wow, this is so fascinating documentary. Well done. I'm playing with soap bubbles right now, while watching this. The most beautiful for me is these colourful whirls constantly changing on the surface of the bubble.

[@1035pm]

You know you're high when you're watching a documentary about bubbles.

[@davidblalock9945]

Or you're a science buff.

[@Psycandy]

hahahaha touche

[@thatonemajin3578]

were doing an experiment on bubbles over putty in science class

[@dannygjk]

That's nothing, listen to it at 0.5 speed I feel like I went down the rabbit hole with Alice.

[@midnightskate]

I'm a science buff because I'm high

[@exponentialnegative1]

Oh gosh I want to hear more about cavitation! Its touched on, and I still learned about cavitation by observing the bubble formation, collapse, and in some of those cases, its vibration!

[@klmn2000]

A truly excellent documentary - well researched and presented!

[@munashenickchindiwo]

This is beautiful

[@jamesbrousseau2159]

"tiny bubbles in the wine" "make me happy" "feeling fine" My grandmother used to sing this song 🙂 Fascinating documentary!@!

[@davidcraill9701]

Now I have a song stuck in my head: "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles". Great and very informative video.

[@johnsanford48]

Dr. Czerski this is fascinating, and beautiful, PLEASE continue to report on your research - you will no doubt come up with more intriguing facts.. Stay safe.

[@stevenbordonaro9843]

How absolutely eye opening and intriguing are bubbles? I never knew. Thank you for your wonderful documentary Helen. :)

[@jaydenwilson9522]

crystals are solid state bubbles

[@thepeoplesuncle]

shes my new favorite scientist :)

[@michael-4k4000]

Helen Czerski is a British physicist and oceanographer and television presenter. She is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London. She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton. And she’s Married bubba

[@leeorshimhoni8949]

awesome, inspiring. cheers to you Dr Helen Czerski. wonder if luminescence material ,as a bubble, going through ring magnet , would generate charge separation , and glow? wonder if a bubble hovering in super-reflecting-dielectric medium can serve as optical cavity / laser gain medium ? wonder if such bubble could be manipulated by ultra sound- dynamic cavity? wonder if a bubble exterior could be coated to mimic topological insulator, 2D material or bubble-surface-quantum-well or create density of states? wonder if a bubble led is possible? thank you for this video. you sound proud of what you do. you should be.

[@maciektomczyk283]

I am diving instructor and ambient music enthusiast. Greate movie which collects lots info about bubbles. I would love to see 2nd part about bubbles formed during decompression sickness. Can it occures during giving anti cancer medicaments?

[@damnumliga396]

Amazing documentary. I really liked it

[@shaikasif6447]

Awesome explanation and an amazing effort from the camera crew to capture those tiny details.

[@jjandbee]

so great Dr Czerski you are so good

[@daviderlic6164]

Hey Dr. Czerski, thank you so much for taking the time to put this amazing documentary together! So many wonderful random facts to share with friends over the holidays :)

[@michael-4k4000]

She’s a married women. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

[@joffranolessons8502]

I loved it!! Thank you so much... It's amazing how bubbles have so many uses and potential applications. I ended up here because I watched some bubbles in my chocolate-coffee to form beautiful 3D structures, and I wanted to know more about them. It seems like I still have a lot more reading to do!!

[@RAMZIAARON]

That must be some very good coffee.

[@KaliFissure]

And if you do Fourier analysis of a snapshot of bubbles one could get the full size analysis of the collection of bubbles.

[@korona277]

This documentary deserves far more views than it has.

[@missvickiemusic1]

Absolutely fascinating!! I definitely will be sharing this with my students!

[@garywhite2050]

Wonderfully presented! I was temporarily distracted by how incredibly often she used the word "incredibly" ! 😂😂😂😂😂 A total of 738 times. Incredible!

[@someguy1914]

Just incredible, thank you for the free content!

[@justthetip96]

Wow. What a most fascinating video. Brilliant minds at work here. Thank you.

[@valorieadoula]

For nine months+ we live in amniotic sac of water (somewhat of a bubble) that also expands as we grow. I’m interested to learn much more about our relationship with this watery environment and how we are nurtured within it.

[@bumathexplorations5296]

Seriously entertaining. I will ask my students to watch this video and do some (safe) experiments. Thank you!

[@danielash1704]

The uses of water is fantastic and the world is blessed.

[@KaliFissure]

Awesome film! So much for thought and so much to apply. Navies stokes and Bernoulli are everything

[@tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai]

Great subject, great documentary! But how did you manage to avoid the word cavitation troughout the movie?

[@judithwalker3600]

Astonishing! I will never look at bubbles the same.

[@natewatson6962]

I'M SO HERE FOR THIS!

[@shqrpholdenmonaro492]

Impressive ! Learned so much. Thanks !

[@annypsi6153]

My first soap bubble to come alive with me was crazy!! I cried and was low-key scared for a sec. But she was too!! When I realized she was engaging with me I kinda cried out and jumped back and so did she. I'm like wtf. 👍 it was awesome.

[@PaulBarnesBSc]

Hi Helen, I've watched the total of this Video a few times but have not heard you mention Van der Waal forces. I finished my university education way back in 1983 so maybe it's just my age. Great vid, keep up the great work.

[@davemwangi05]

but she mentioned hydrogen bonds due to polarization

[@VIRCI]

Great video. Fluid dynamics. And bubbles will improve future technology

[@sofilove...20]

Love all types of bubbles...

[@ikaeksen]

Me: maybe in the future, we can have a bubble engine and travel the speed of light. Scientist: hold my bubble.. ^^

[@rw2452]

Actually, a video on warp drive brought me here😂

[@toneloke7489]

Very interesting, and it makes you look at something as simple as bubbles and they're applications, to see how complex and mind blowing they really are, cool!

[@rosavicious]

Absolutely fascinating!!!

[@violentfelony76]

at last! the perfect video to fall asleep to.

[@SHADOWSKY10]

How is this not extremely famous?

[@mylucksmiles]

Joanna Jinton put some recordings of ice music. On KZbin. Those recordings are remarkably similar to whale sound. In the ocean noise/sounds vibrations play their part . Water is aliving organic force. My question is ,what happens when a droplet is demagnitised? Does water come apart? Does it bust your bubble ?

[@sankarbasu8524]

Thanks for so beautiful a presentation, no appreciation is enough to praise.

[@ozzyluvngirl]

This is really fascinating wow.

[@DrChrisB]

Helenko, jesteś wspaniała !

[@michael-4k4000]

Helen Czerski is a British physicist and oceanographer and television presenter. She is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London. She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton

[@KosmicKoheiAspiringAstronaut]

So interesting! Thanks for sharing this fun video

[@quetzalcoatlz]

Who would have thought, something so niche has such depth! Btw, Your bubble machine reminds me of the colored bubble displays in the 90s, funny how those used to be everywhere you'd go here in the states.

[@ozzyluvngirl]

So could you tell me, how is the sound carried. If there is a sound ubuve the water does it get trapped by the water then carried under the water by the bubble?

[@luismolp]

Buen vídeo, luego del fracaso en la carrera por conseguir la liquefaccion del Elio James Dewar se dedicó al estudio de las burbujas de jabón y me causó mucho curiosidad. Gracias Por compartirlo.

[@MikeBCNU]

thx, i enjoyed that

[@paulkendra5504]

What a beautiful video absolutely beautiful… And there was some bit about bubbles or something but just a beautiful video all together

[@ILoveElectroAndHouse]

really fascinating! i love this topic. i always thought bubbles are kind of odd and mysterious and now i have a lot of explanations. also i wondered, where this accent was from. turns out i forgot that oxford english exists lol.

[@blameyourself4489]

Wow! That was interesting!

[@kittysuttonauthor]

This is so amazing. How great is Jehovah for designing and creating our world and our environment. Something simple like bubbles we find is not simple at all. This physicist is so smart.

[@jacqueslavoie6392]

Great video.

[@brinlogie4598]

This is incredible!

[@robertlangford5170]

While watching your video, it occured to me that the cleaning micro bubbles could be used to remove plack from clogged arteries.

[@abufaisal1st]

Thank you very much very amazing سبحان الخالق العظيم

[@genemesser6020]

I have a cousin we called bubbles. She is every bit as fasinating as a thin spherical membrane of liquid, lipids, or soap enclosing air or another gas. Mostly because even with the name Velvet Venus with the nickname Bubbles see didn't end up in a stripper pole. One of my favorites people. Life never ceases to amaze.

[@exeltranquilitymashallahsu6226]

No gravity it is all surface tension @45:15 he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: …

[@theTylerMorale]

High speed cameras have unlocked our ability to learn many things!

[@robertcoulson483]

This is why we did not want girls in our science and engineering classes in the 60's. They would raise the grading average, thus we had to work much harder to keep up with them. Excellent presentation about Bubbles !

[@sfr4864]

A round of applause for this amazing comment

[@adamrspears1981]

"Hi, I'm a bub-ologist & I'd like to take you back to my lab & pop your bubble....got any plans tonight?"

[@edl5074]

Great job love bubbles even more now thank you 🌹

[@TheGuruNetOn]

Her book "Storm in a Teacup" is a great insight into everyday Physics and the connection with extreme events connected by all pervasive forces of nature.

[@ecduzitgood]

Does an air bubble from an air stone in an aquarium release any of the gasses within as it rises to the surface or does the gas exchange only occur at the surface?

[@SamFirthDesigner]

Surely the whole time they're in contact

[@trevormcvety7315]

Thank you.

[@alinonymous]

Thanks for this great video, bubbly lady! Among others, it reminded me that the Russians created a very fast-traveling torpedo by making it spew air at its tip. I'm a writer of fiction and I retain in particular your idea that bubbles resonate like musical instruments.

[@jackmack1061]

Very interesting. I wonder if a second ep on boiling and cavitation might be made. I particularly wonder if the erosive effect of cavitation is sonic.

[@DnBastard]

It's thermal afaik

[@johnmichaelireland]

really interesting.

[@stephaniemcguire]

Man, if I had known I could make a living looking at bubbles all day, I would not have suffered through so many years of medical transcription.

[@ctdieselnut]

Awesome!

[@lindacrabb3381]

Emoto the science of water. Thank you love your story.

[@brucemiller2172]

sulfide ore bodies and the bubbles used in floatation cells for separation ? Room for improvement?

Spectacular

[@danielash1704]

Yes the surface tensions are very good for a variety of measurements the bubble can collect from the air and with the right frequencies you can get a value of that chemical in the air reflectional spectroscopy

[@tylercooper1551]

Is it weird that I find her love of bubbles adorkable?

[@MegaBoilermaker]

Dr Czerski. Extensive research has been carried out over the last 40 + years in to bubble formation in human tissue/blood/fluids with particular accent on nucleation etc. The Diving Diseases Research Centre in Plymouth (UK) were/are the repository of much of the works published on the subject. I am sure that they would be helpful to any serious enquiry.

[@Siladzy]

This is amazing

[@snurod]

“ i was too young of course to drink champagne 🥂 but I was drinking beer 🍻” wait what ? 😂

[@BatriaYourDad]

So beautiful...

[@whirledpeas3477]

Getting paid to look at bubbles, What a life 😃

[@extremexplorer8930]

This changed my Views about Bubbles

[@danielash1704]

What I used to do is freeze the bubbles in a faster way and then collect the globes of glassy surfaces and see the intricate crystal shapes and chemicals unraveling in this universe we have been blessed

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable. Very fascinating! Ever heard of a chemist by the name of Agnes Pockels

[@Takeithome345]

Awesome vid !

[@h7opolo]

16:50 fractal dropletization

[@landlockedmermaid]

Finally! Bubble SCIENCE.

[@Tom-pc7lb]

15%reduction in fuel cost also means 15% reduction in CO2 emissions. Go team!

[@danielash1704]

Heavy water holds at a different level than that of natural water. The freezing 🥶water has the ability to change the way you are living in the sense it can hold memories of it's environment.