The Bubble Lab at The Imaginarium!

Sponsored By Blockbuster Video

Get into bubbles! Big bubbles, small bubbles, different-shaped bubbles and everything in between! Our Bubble Lab puts you inside a giant real bubble. While you're there, you can learn about the science behind these fantastic, fun creations. Use wands, rings, and imagination to make magical science. From chemistry to physics, you will discover what makes it takes to make the bubbly fun.

The Top Ten Reasons Why Bubbles are so cool:

10. All bubbles are made of an elastic (stretchy) shell and a gas interior.

9. They can be made from anything—paint, water, soap, milk, liquid nitrogen, gasoline, whatever.

8. Someone once made a bubble that lasted for nearly a year!

7. The gas inside a bubble can be anything, too: Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, Neon, whatever.

6. Bubbles aren’t really all those colors at once: Instead, they break thelight up (like a prism).

5. Different colors mean different thickness. Yellow and black are the two thinnest.

4. As the juice flows down the bubble, it gets thinner; when the top turns black, it’s about to pop.

3. Bubbles don’t have to be round—with a frame, they can be cubical, tetrahedral, or even blob-shaped.

2. Bubbles in the air like to be spherical because a sphere has the best ratio of surface area to volume, and the surface (skin) likes to shrink
(elasticity), so it forms a sphere.

1. Things that are bubbles, but you never realized it: balloons, cells, (like your eyes…scary thought), beachballs, spacesuits, and your lungs
and stomach.