Microsoft Word - Chem and physics of soap bubbles part 1 - soap bubbles part 1.pdf. Bubble Genesis of Life. July 9, 1993 This past Monday, while most of us were recuperating from 4th of July barbeques and other holiday festivities, Louis Lerman, a geophysicist who is currently a visitor in LBL's Nuclear Sciences Division working on cascade effects, was in Barcelona, Spain, making headlines with a theory that helps explain how life began on Earth.
Reported in the New York Times and other publications, the theory, which Lerman developed as a Hertz Foundation scholar, mostly while at Stanford University, is called the Prebiotic Origin of Organic Molecules or "Pre-BOOM" hypothesis. It asserts that a major role in the creation of living cells was played by bubbles on the ocean surface and their atmospheric counterparts, aerosols and precipitation droplets.
"The bubblesol cycle on the primordial earth served as a natural reactor for prebiotic chemistry, offering an integrated and cyclic network of microenvironments which strongly supported organic chemical self-organization," Lerman says. E+25+40.gif (GIF Image, 1600 × 1231 pixels) Soap Bubbles - Basic Properties, Bubble Recipe & More. By Ron Hipschman.
What is so fascinating about bubbles? The precise spherical shape, the incredibly fragile nature of the microscopically thin soap film, the beautiful colors that swirl and shimmer, or most likely, a combination of all these phenomena? Why does a bubble form a sphere at all? Soapbubble.dk.