Popping a Bubble from Inside at 50,000FPS - The Slow Mo Guys

Hi, I'm Gav, I'm Dan, we're the

slow

motion

guys

. This video is sponsored by kiwico, who, as you know, we really like. On this channel they create practical experiments and activities that you can do at home. To get kids excited about learning I'm going to take inspiration from this

bubble

machine and in very

slow

motion scale it to blow absolutely huge

bubble

s, to be honest I just want to put you in a bubble I think. That will be a good video. I also believe it. I'm not going to fit into this, so I created it and did some self-engineering.

Yeah, okay, why don't you show me what you got? What is it? that's our bubble solution that I made before it's mostly water, best is distilled water and detergent and a little bit of glycerin for an extra touch of flavor. The way it works is that the water molecules have a pretty strong attraction to each other and the detergent turns between the water molecules is rude I know and that decreases the surface tension which allows bubbles to form creating a film very thin, so all we need now is this guy that we're going to make our bubbles with and somewhere. go and stand up so let's go to the pool the pool is ok yeah it's exactly what it looks like it's a piece of plastic sheeting with a hula hoop and a saucepan inside it looks like somewhere ok he threw a sauce , but in a humid place. bin, okay, okay, it's incredibly effective, although before you scoff and laugh at me, oh yeah, look at the state of this stock here, what colors are siding with that decent, uh, very decent , the idea is that I will remain standing. in the saucepan and you will lift the hula hoop with the solution and I will be inside the bubble.

I love it. I think we should start filming it at a thousand frames per second in 4k. What do you think is a great idea? Okay, Dan is this. the first time you stood in a saucepan in a bunch of bubbles, I think so, I think I can count on my hands, yeah, yeah, it may not be the last because I don't know how good I am at this, here we go, that was. The worst one I've ever done was great, yeah you went for the slow technique, this time it was really slow, it was uh I was worried about my first technique, you can see here as it builds up the definition on the edges really starts to show, Yeah.

It's also strange because if you go slowly, the bubble crawls in, yeah, it crushes me, it's like closing it, yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's like a balance between speed and my face too. I am puzzled. You are hypnotized. No, yeah, oh, you can see where it all comes together on one side, it's like a bright curtain, isn't it? It was a wide range of emotions, so wow, that was great, okay, okay, ready, you're ready, ready to DJ so fast. "It's not like that, I think how fast it is is actually very fast, okay, so you've had the excellent idea that I push it, if it starts to explode from behind, you will surely end up in the front right bubble physics, yeah , are". starting the pop, here we go, oh, that's so strange, it seems very stringy, doesn't it?

It's very gelatinous, yeah, maybe we could get you out there too, just do it against black, oh, I saw about three frames of that, but it looked like. pretty good, it's like at the last minute, it's like it wrinkles, yes, it's like the fabric seems to fold on itself because it ran out of all the elasticity it had before. It's like that, yeah, it's like a layer of wrinkled jelly, you can see the quick. movement in the film, look here, it's stationary, it's very slow, it speeds up from time to time, it crumples, so you actually see that the inside of the film is moving and then the whole film collapses on itself, honestly , there's so much going on that I think we changed the camera a little bit. of speed we will go TMX we will go very fast right at that frontal moment, it is good to be able to see a little more detail in the front of each pop.

I have switched to the Phantom TMX 7510, the fastest Phantom currently available, but it will only be about 20,000 frames per second because I think if they are slower they will look like a painting, that's your touch. I'm going to go, keep it there, okay, ready, yeah, my face, you know, when, like, sometimes. like a magician like in a show he'll go like Bing that's what he looks like he's really cool perfectly even the way he runs away right? Yes, he seems to like the distant temperature of your finger at each point. Yeah, that's different now that it's starting. to go off but initially I can't even see there's a bubble there apart from the light reflection yeah you couldn't tell and then all of a sudden you pushed it there was a little there was a little bit of pressure on it that I never you would see with the human eye a little bit of bones that you have put, you have pushed it look, you start to push it here and it appears here wow, what it does to your hand as if there was a light on your hand, oh, move the light and then you It gives like a little rainbow movement, it's like a prism, yeah, it almost seems like your fingers are moving so fast, it's like a sonic boom, like in the front, like the sound barrier, yeah, my finger, well.

I can say that for at least five seconds I have lived in a bubble, would you come out like a lifetime? I mean, I'm living, right? Now we're at 50,000. Just a little tight on the pop and the focus is probably a couple of thousand, a couple of millimeters not to be confused with Mill, sorry, it's a part of an inch, if it's two thousand then probably It would be three thirty seconds. of an inch, there you go foreign, okay, I'll try a ridiculously ambitious focus group without any real lens equipment, usually you'd have good follow focus here, but I'm only doing it on the lens, it appears so quickly that It will be very difficult. yeah I have faith in you three two one oh I know that wasn't quite right three two one pop that was poop I went too far three two one pop that was a real try yeah that wasn't I wasn't ready at all oh so the move on the lens here it's from six feet to three and a half feet in less than a second, which is doable, but it lands in exactly the right place no, no, it's pretty good, okay, let's try it three, two, one pop, pretty good. a very good effort actually look at that look at those people that you can see, you can see your reflection is that you or is it me there like around the corner oh no, that's me, that's you, I'm in this shot, so if we lose all the reflections from the back so these lights are gone I'm still there from these lights and then you just wrinkle into nothing you just fold it you just become a wrinkle which is so interesting there's just a lot going on.

More things than I thought I just can't get enough, can you? I was lucky because I still have about 10 liters left. It doesn't really reset until the end of time. Yes, I really enjoyed some of those images. I feel like we've blown bubbles before, but. We've never done them so slowly and with that level of detail so close to the point that we can see the front of the pop. It is very strange to see this mixture of bubbles and it also seemed quite wrinkled and strange like many others. the ones I've seen before appear everywhere at once, these ones definitely had like a movie going on, yeah it's like Fabricy towards the end, I hope you enjoyed that video.

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