"Scientists have been able to understand the unusual phenomenon of antibubbles - the rare, reverse form of normal bubbles - by forming them in beer.

 

Typical bubbles are thin films of liquid enclosing pockets of air, but antibubbles are a thin film of air which encloses pockets of liquid.

 

Belgian researchers said on Monday they could make antibubbles appear in a many different liquids - not just alcohol.

 

Dr Stephane Dorbolo details his team's work in the New Journal of Physics."

 

The full article is available from the BBC here.

COOL!!!!

 

I KNEW there was something about beer I liked so much, now I know,, ITS THE BUBBLES! LOL

Belgians? right, never trust what they say.

 

Oh yes that's only about taxes

hey I`m a quarter Flemish too!!!

Oh yeah, I see what you mean

I've been through a few beers and I can't duplicate their results. This experiment is going to get expensive but I'll get it right. Some of the most fun research I've had in a while.

Just aman

Check this out!

 

http://physics.about.com/cs/chemphysexp/a/antibubbles.htm

that is so cool!

I was wondering though, is it the same as those spheres of water that somtimes can be seen above the surface seemingly floating like a pond skater? it sounds similar.

nice find Blike

Shouldn't spheres of air rising in liquid have a different name from "Bubbles?" Drops are anti bubbles as well in this case...

Pockets of liquid contained in a thin film of a gas? Would that be possible if the gas has a lot of polarity so they stick togeter, and hold in the liquid?

i saw that in a magazine. i think it was science news. it was an OLD issue

A year old maybe?

So when a bubble comes into contact with an anti-bubble, do they annihilate one another and release energy?

Anything at all like matter and anti-matter? Y'know, blow up a quarter of the planet since one guy has beer and another has soda?

i may be a party waterer but... i find do not find this surprising...

That was my second or third post on this whole site, this is an old thread...

Why did they decide to use Beer anyway? What about its nature is conducive in forming anti-bubbles?

also, what is the point in this, it seems totaly pointless, why would anyone need or want to know about this... or is it just a random thing which some scientist noticed and is getting famous for. it has, seemingly, no practical use.

also, what is the point in this, it seems totaly pointless, why would anyone need or want to know about this... or is it just a random thing which some scientist noticed and is getting famous for. it has, seemingly, no practical use.

Yeah, I also failed to see why it "perplexed" scientist. What is so mystical about anti-bubbles?

it is just a demonstration of chemical bonding and surface tension, inside a bubble of air, well done!

 

so what ?