Everyday anomalies

My title for this thread is somewhat "tongue in cheek" paradoxical. But it is meant to discuss things that happen that don't presently have an explanation. Think of phenomena that science hasn't gotten around to explaining yet. Below are two examples of a soap bubble suspended motionlessly in midair. In the video you can hear the comments about the occurence. The suggestion of a "glitch in the matrix" is mentioned at some point. I must confess this has me stumped. What is a plausible cause for this phenomena? Any thoughts?

 

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It's a soap bubble. They can hover for a bit if conditions are right, temp, humidity, air conditions, etc.

 

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Have you ever seen a soap bubble sit still in midair for about 3 minutes? I haven't.

 

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I don't look at a lot of soap bubbles but they do that from time to time. What other explanation do you have for a soap bubble?

 

I know being a Debbie Downer is my schtick. My personal take, alas, is that these kinds of things are far, far too easy to fake - and people are highly motivated to do so for the likes. There is an entire industry of amateur and professional artists who do these for exposure. I've seen a million of em.

So alas, my motto for all such online tricks, has become:

If it can be staged, it's staged. If it can be faked, it's faked.


It doesn't even need to be digitally manipulated, this one can be as simple as being stuck to a sheet of transparent acrylic. That's how they did the ballpoint pen trick in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968):

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For a soap bubble that stands still in midair for 3 minutes? I don't have an explanation. Hence this thread.

 

Here's one way...

https://www.experimentarchive.com/experiments/hovering-soap-bubble/

 

It looks like a soap bubble but I’ve never really seen one “hover” in one place for a bit. I’ll have to create some soap bubbles and see how long they float before popping. Typically, they pop pretty quickly. Hmm…

 

Never in my prodigious experience of soap bubbles have I experienced anything like this. There's something goin on here. And I don't think it's fake either.

 

They seem to be stuck to a strand of spider silk. In the second one, for example, when the bubble bursts the liquid clearly falls down the silk at an angle to what you'd expect if just from gravity (see 1:18 - 1:21). In the first I imagine that the silk strand is also at an angle, hence he's able to go seemingly above and below without disturbing it, before presumably touching the strand inadvertently and causing the bubble to burst.
Anyhoo - they look cool, clearly unusual, but nothing particularly mysterious, imho.

 

Ofcourse this assumes that a floating soap bubble would stick to a cobweb. Maybe it would actually pop like it does when it bumps into anything. Maybe it would just move on driven by ambient air currents. Experimentation seems to be in order.

 

Good luck with that.

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"Glitch in the matrix" video recorded sporting event. One camera shows the runner ahead of everyone. Another camera shows him behind some others. WTF? Are we at the precipitous threshold of our objective reality here?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jc5S82qZE1o

 

Shock horror: footage of one race doesn't match footage of another race!

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If you note the person putting their arms in the air after handing the baton over to the final guy, in one video he raises both arms (the actual 1996 4x100m final) and in the other he only raises one arm. Ergo different race.
Nice try, though, MR.

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Well it's a dirty job but SOMEone has to scout out these things!

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Are you claiming it isn't real? I posted 2 videos proving it's real. What is your evidence it isn't real?

 

That's what I thought. Then we can assume they're real. Real video recordings of real events involving real bubbles and real people. Welcome back to Reality.