“We found that a lot of people have used the acoustic levitator to study droplets but not the bubbles it can create,” says Joe Nightingale in a university press statement.
“We’ve based our project on some of those research papers we’ve found. We’re trying to replicate some of those experiments with bubbles to see if we can get the same results or find something new.”
80-minute bubble flight
The pair reveals that they let the bubble float for over 80 minutes before finally popping it themselves, deciding it was time to “move on with their lives.”
According to them, it was their final-year project on bubble oscillation modes that sparked their goal to set a record.