Freezing Air Transforms A Soap Bubble, Blown By A Woman On Snow Pile, Into A Magical Piece Of Art

Dec 11, 2018 by apost team

The scene: Winter in Montana. A yard full of snow with cars driving past in the background.

The goal: Film a soap bubble as it freezes after being placed on a mound of snow. If you thought magic wasn't real, think again. This has to be one of the most fun videos you will see this week.

Gloria is all grown up, but she's not too old have fun blowing bubbles. Bonus: Unlike a small child, she can film it and share the video with the world. At the start of the video, the soap bubble sits majestically atop a mound of snow. It's fresh and it visibly wobbles in the wind

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You can hear the snow crunch beneath her feet as she shuffles them. Not long after the video starts, Gloria whispers to the little bubble under her breath imploring it "Don't pop." The bubble seems so very fragile out in the harsh elements of cold and windy Montana. It seems such an unlikely pairing, but that's precisely how the magic happens here.

Then a patch of ice forms. If you have ever watched time lapse illustrations of the planet being covered in ice during some past ice age, you will have a bit of deja vu. Perhaps they got the idea from freezing soap bubbles! It looks all too familiar

As the ice patches stretch towards each other and being to interlock, the wobbling begins to still. As it freezes, this soap bubble is changing states, from liquid to solid. It is turning into a tiny globe of ice. Soon, the once clear bubble is an opaque ball of white ice. You can no longer tell by looking at it that it's actually a thin surface surrounding a ball of air. The unstable fragility it began with has seemingly vanished.

If you didn't know better, you might even think it was a decorative glass ball. Or perhaps the proverbial magical crystal ball for talking with the dead and making predictions about the future. Only this is far more magical. This spell was cast when a soap bubble met the cold winds of Montana and transformed from liquid to ice before our very eyes.

Do you know a child who would love to see this little bit of magic? Or someone who is still a child at heart? Forward this to them now so they can be agog too!