Jupiter's storms modelled on a soap bubble

[silentbloodyslayer98]

cool

[meaganfarr2]

Bubbles:

Also known as mini rainbow Jupiters.

:D

[snapperdreng]

apartheide

[snapperdreng]

spam

[snapperdreng]

spam

[snapperdreng]

spam

[snapperdreng]

jizzz... in... my... pants.... !

- tak simon :D

[Jacobrocks9900]

I just jizzed... That soap bubble is... just hot. My physics teacher is a great guy for linking this youtube video. Tak Simon! :)

[snapperdreng]

@Jacobrocks9900 I jizz to :O

[handwritingsucks]

The swirl on the top of the bubble in the first seconds of the video could represent the great red spot on Jupiter.

[hivecluster5]

Bubble WIN!

[nlicky]

Well, at least the swirling looked cool and in a different way than the real Jupiter.

[cheyney93]

well said or shown

[noneedforusernames]

mini hurricanes! oh yeaaa

[TriggDev]

that's so cool!

[BurtBartlow]

Jupiter brand soap leaves your body cleaner.

[kreendurron]

@BurtBartlow lol

[Melimo]

@BurtBartlow and full of radiation. ;}

[johannes12021991]

jupter star power^^

[Archimedes555453525]

I wonder what makes the bubble act like that

[graphattic]

The micro imbalance of the temperature, and the material, make for a constant need for the soap mix to constantly move trying to find a balanced point.

And nature's way to mix things is the spiral form usually. So what you see is the bubble trying to attain its physical balance while the environment constantly changes ever so slightly.

[3636jae]

uuuum, What?

[graphattic]

@3636jae soap bubbles.... bath.. you know? It was a lousy attempt of a joke!

[kreendurron]

@graphattic why

[TehZorzGuy]

I know, it's weird. I mean, every soap bubble has that kind of movement on the surface, but they don't all accurately map Jupiter's storms.

[victom111]

@Archimedes555453525 The bubble represents Jupiter(obviously) and it shows why the 'eye' of Jupiter is there. It isn't actually shown in this video but there is some sort of heat beneath that half bubble which creates the swirl meaning if Jupiter is like this then there is probably intense heat in the center of Jupiter. =) Oh and sorry for replying to your comment that is 1 year old XD

[Archimedes555453525]

@victom111 - No need to apologize, I'm glad that people like yourself give information without asking some in return, information which might one day be useful to me. So in fact, I should thank you. So thank you.

[lexichronicle2]

@Archimedes555453525 it's just the surface equilibrating it's self. the different colours are caused by none uniformities in the layer of water. since it's still a liquid, it still flows (no matter thin) rather quickly.

[Pollytopia]

very beautiful

[ElectronicSculptures]

Neat.  I have to try that.

[AllowExpression]

So this means we exist inside a giant bathtub?

I knew it all along! :*)

[graphattic]

Man turn on the hot water, it is getting colder, and als rub my back....LOL

[dunandidit]

Must be from Calgary...

[dunandidit]

Canadians...

Don't get me started...

[dunandidit]

Will yer look at that... I wonder how much it cost to produce such an awfull waste of ma time!

[dgardner93]

ur the moron who clicked it , so i wonder how many brain cells u have

[dunandidit]

I have more brains in ma toe than you have in yer hed. So enjoy the pretty colours...

some advise, you should be a janitor, coz ye dinnae have to think for yer self and there are lots and lots of bubbles in yer bucket...

[dunandidit]

Grumpy old Albertan... 'a'

[calzedz18]

ma = ?

yer = ?

hed = ?

coz = ?

dinnae = ?

[Xxero0]

Dont forget ye.

[dddproject]

thats what i call total reflection.

[themanyone]

Well, Jupiter is incredibly light for its size. I don't think we can completely discredit the bubble theory proposed by some of the commenters. The Galileo probe was only able to descend into the thin outer 100 mile layer of atmosphere before the signal faded.

[GFGLegendary]

Jupiter is also gas, not solid mass so it would be light for its size. If it were a solid mass of rock it would be an inprobable weight.

[freeyourmindusa]

you are smart

[xjenimyx]

a very convenient way of observing Jupiter's

storms in your house or at school.

[Tbonyandsteak]

hehe those comments.

I think this video is posted becourse he think that the soabboble reminds off the storms off jupiter.

Think you guys taken this too far hehe.

[Topecs]

What they're really saying is this is a model, not that Jupiter is like a bubble.

They recently modeled the early universe with supercooled Helium, but it was actually superheated. Certain things react similarly, even if they don't seem like they would, and they make good models.

[dmimente]

only shit!

[nerdelicious5]

Trippy

[Shademp]

I read an article about this on Science Daily, and apparently they lowered the temperature of the middle section of the bubble to create a temperature difference between the middle and top so that vortexes would be created. A fascinating small-scale experiment which is MUCH better than nothing at all. I applaud the founders of this idea.

[rabbitandcrow]

Really cool & delightful vid!!

[just4Isaac]

Its a cheap shot to say something is jupiter for no other reason than it looks swirly and pretty . They could'nt even be bothered to slow the vid down. The biggest planet in our solar system is no bubble with a core several times larger than this planet.

[just4Isaac]

Roff or Proff, it wasn't that long ago that they said the world was flat. So, are you saying Jupiter is a bubble now? If you are, you've got to be a clown! Baggy trousers,big shoes and you probably drive a car that goes honk, honk...

[NOODLElol]

wtf?

[just4Isaac]

Noodle: Whats your prob? The roff recons the bubble has a core...

[place910]

Are you for real?

Nobody is saying that Jupiter is literally a soap bubble. This is a model of Jupiter. It would be extraordinarily difficult to fit a real planet into a lab for study.

[just4Isaac]

Im more real than thinking that silly bubble is Jupiter. I bet the person who posted this vid can laugh without smiling...

[calosity]

?? Idiot. They are studying the movements of soap on the bubble and comparing it to movements of the storms on Jupiter. Maybe you didn't understand wtf was going on when you clicked the link. how disappointing for you.

[djla1]

lol are you for real you think people think this is jupiter lol and you think this is a model lol..numskull

[just4Isaac]

Take a look at Nasa world wind Jupiter. Doesnt look anything like this bubble...

[just4Isaac]

I'm forever blowing bubbles... lots of bubbles in the air...

Isn't that West Ham?

[recentlyIhave]

god isn't in the detail, but those types would also like this... got potential for when we are minutes aliens. uh hum. med time.

[just4Isaac]

rec: Wot medication are you on?

[edBOYedBOY]

jus4Isaac, what has a West Ham song or chant got to do with this particular video?

[just4Isaac]

This vid has nothing to do with Jupiter. Have a look at the real thing and take a look at the surface of this bubble. They could have rotated the bubble or caused a linear tracked air flow to gently perturb its surface to simulate Jovian rotation. Someone has come up with a pretty vid and called it Jupiter.

edBoy:to answer your good question... bubble/bubbles???

[Roffey2]

You mean that Jupiter is not a bubble? HOLY SHIT ON A STICK WHAT A REVELATION.

Being serious now; OK, so this video isn't what we would call scientifically correct. But there are plenty of scientific experiments which are similar to this to simulate real-life events. For instance, dumping glass into a vat of water to simulate how pyroclastic flows are formed and act (it may have been avalanches, but I cant quite remember - but the principle stands). My advice, don't be so anal.

[edBOYedBOY]

Ooooh ok now I got it

[morgothofangmar]

why wud u even bother unless u had a video of jupioters storms to compare it to numbskull get a grip or take some more acid

[sicbot]

good

[just4Isaac]

17 seconds of twaddle...and compare it with jupiter? Its just pretty nonscence. Wot will some sad individual come up with next? The steam off a cow pat as evidence of global warming?

[kostangmekham]

ignorant sob.

[just4Isaac]

KOSTY:I cant help the way you feel about yourself. If by chance you think you are witnessing Jovian cloud formation, I have only one thing to say about it.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Whoops there goes Europa!

[sockschappercat]

well ...methane.

[borgduck]

Fab!

[beauty0o]

i saw rainbow colours in bubles when i was five! i can even make huge bubles with my hands!

[munchkindude100]

so can i its quite easy =)we did it in science for ages lol dont ask why but its the sorta thing you do wen bored lol

[BnRR34]

A W E S O M E

Really Really clever!!!

But does it really behaves like Jupiter storm or it just looks like it.

[Neqkschot]

Neato.

[ZealonChaosMagi]

thats soo cool

[ruffboy021]

k what u mean to say, is that Jupiter is bubble (maybe!).

[mattthebassguy]

umm no dumbass, it's saying that the storms act like that on Jupiter!

Gah read a book sometime!

[ruffboy021]

wow freaks like u do get serious. Get a life jerk ( i was just jokin! )

[lol35654]

kewlio

[valexcanto00]

0.0

[MiiCar]

thats strange nman

[Narutoslilsis0]

cool!!!!!!!!!!

[emmanrocks]

lol that is a gas buble...thats dumb??

[pkrska]

nice example. where was the influence coming from? atmospheric?

[barberman1234]

How mad is that!

[bestiaccia]

Wow!

[missionresident]

Cool keep up the good work newscientistvideo! This video made me see universes within universes.

[silvertrout88]

lol where where. i wana see

[takineko]

that reminds me of when that scientist on PBS years ago used soap bubbles to show gallaxies. They were the swirly things on thebubbles. But then he asks, whose blowing the bubbles?

[rofyle]

Okay, Lancaster1846 - thenavido, you're all three unimaginative nerds. It's supposed to look interesting, that's all. Look at it as an artist's representation of a Jupiter's storms.

[lancaster1846]

I suspect that the lack of obvious similarity has to do with the large array of other factors affecting the behaviour of storms on planets as opposed to a hollow bubble ten centimetres across...a slight difference in scale and gravity there.

[Subjugate]

it does have some interesting movement patterns, but it fails to mimic jupiter considering jupiter manages to have a lot more structure. each band in jupiter does something different then the one above it or below it. one band could be going east, the other west, one could be pushing winds down further into the atmosphere, the other could be venting them upward.

[thenavido]

how can this be a model of jupiter's storm when the bubble is a semicircle

[TheClawProductions]

man, this is some vanessa williams 88 shit

[morethansalt]

Give us some hard science!

[oggleman]

awesome!

[nerdelicious5]

that's really cool

[2gs425]

Awesome dude..

[liverpool80000seater]

the universe is interesting

[Magnulus]

Mesmerizing!

And you can do this with any soap bubble? Is there a particularly potent mixture you can use?

[ferrariModenas]

Other planets are extremely different, it is amazing that a storm can last about 1000 years

[PolliFaxToaster]

maybe its amazing that terrestrial storms are so short lived.

[DamienZshadow]

aaahhhh very clever! It has been theorized, though, that it has more to do with being a Jovian-type planet farther away from the Sun. Contrary to original speculation, wind speeds were much greater the further out the planets were meaning that they produce their own heat and any heat from the Sun is just extra turbulence rather than a source of energy.

[GRAVYRAQUEPz]

I was thinking that to but I was not thinking about Jupiter.

[TheBoh3m3beggar]

Cool

[DamienZshadow]

what would have to be done to mimic the lateral affects of the storms? these seem more random and spontaneous than the ones seen on Jupiter...

[onlytag1way]

gravity

[DamienZshadow]

figures. damn gravity...always have to be so selfish! first refusing to unify with the other three forces now this!? when will he learn to just cooperate...

[KameWaOni]

Ive never really looked at a soap bubble close before, it really does look like a multi-colored jupiter. Great video.

[dafttool]

OK, that's cool.