{"id":1095,"date":"2008-12-07T05:24:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2008-12-07T05:24:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T10:24:23","slug":"toil-and-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1095","title":{"rendered":"Toil and Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More bubbles in microgravity<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zaHLwla2WiI?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zaHLwla2WiI?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting that, contrary to terrestrial experience with drops on a surface, the colliding drops tend to scatter rather than coelesce.  In microgravity the drops are spherical, which is the minimum-energy configuration, so I expect this presents an activation barrier of sorts.  The collision needs to be strong enough to perturb the shape of the drops, so that combining them doesn&#8217;t represent a configuration that requires more energy than is present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bubbles in microgravity You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I find it interesting that, contrary to terrestrial experience with drops on a surface, the colliding drops tend to scatter rather than coelesce. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1095\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[269,320],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-physics","tag-iss","tag-microgravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}