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Was the giant bubble a delusion? By CLAY THOMPSON Fri, Nov 30 2012 4:30 PM Today's question: Recently, my partner and I were sitting on the patio and what looked exactly like a half-inch soap bubble came floating over the back wall. It floated over the pool, proceeded to float under the patio table and chair legs, then up to the ceiling, came down and then floated across the yard and through all the branches of a neighbor's tree. We looked over the wall and there was no one there blowing soap bubbles. Our bottle of wine was still unopened. Any ideas? Any ideas? Are you sure there wasn't anyone in the neighborhood using one of those giant soap-bubble wands? If not, even if your bottle of wine was unopened maybe you were otherwise stoned or happened to be part of some sort of a mass delusion, although I haven't heard from the rest of the masses about this matter lately. I did some extensive research into this - and those of you who know my techniques will know what I mean by "extensive" - and came up blank. If any of you people have any ideas about this matter, I will be happy to hear them. Actually, I will dread hearing them, but what the heck. However, I did come across something interesting. (Kids - don't try this at home. Only do it with an adult you can blame if something goes wrong.) Take a bar of Ivory soap, which has a lot of air bubbles, which is why it floats, and take it out of its wrapper and put it on a paper plate and microwave that sucker for a minute or two so and see it expand to a foam about six times the bar's original size. Cool. Reach Thompson at clay.thompson@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8612. |