The bursting of a balloon is more complicated, and beautiful, than you might think. A new slow-mo video made by scientists at the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique in Paris shows that balloons come apart in two very different ways, depending on how inflated they are before popping. When a moderately inflated balloon is pierced by a sharp instrument, it bursts along a single split in the latex without any fragmentation: But when a fully inflated balloon is pierced, it breaks up along mu...
The bursting of a balloon is more complicated, and beautiful, than you might think. A new slow-mo video made by scientists at the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique in Paris shows that balloons come apart in two very different ways, depending on how inflated they are before popping. When a moderately inflated balloon is pierced by a sharp instrument, it bursts along a single split in the latex without any fragmentation: But when a fully inflated balloon is pierced, it breaks up along mu...
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