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  2. Bubble (physics) - Wikipedia

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    The same effect, but on a larger scale, is used in focused energy weapons such as the bazooka and the torpedo. Pistol shrimp also uses a collapsing cavitation bubble as a weapon. The same effect is used to treat kidney stones in a lithotripter. Marine mammals such as dolphins and whales use bubbles for entertainment or as hunting tools.

  3. Bubble chamber - Wikipedia

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    A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser , [ 1 ] for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics . [ 2 ]

  4. Sonoluminescence - Wikipedia

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    The light produced is of lower intensity than the light produced by typical sonoluminescence and is not visible to the naked eye. The light and heat produced by the bubble may have no direct significance, as it is the shockwave produced by the rapidly collapsing bubble which these shrimp use to stun or kill prey.

  5. Soap bubble - Wikipedia

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    A soap bubble Girl blowing bubbles Many bubbles make foam. A soap bubble (commonly referred to as simply a bubble) is an extremely thin film of soap or detergent and water enclosing air that forms a hollow sphere with an iridescent surface. Soap bubbles usually last for only a few seconds before bursting, either on their own or on contact with ...

  6. Cloud chamber - Wikipedia

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    The bubble chamber was invented by Donald A. Glaser of the United States in 1952, and for this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960. The bubble chamber similarly reveals the tracks of subatomic particles, but inverts the principle of the cloud chamber to detect them as trails of bubbles in a superheated liquid, usually liquid ...

  7. Alcubierre drive - Wikipedia

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    It is a Lorentzian manifold that, if interpreted in the context of general relativity, allows a warp bubble to appear in previously flat spacetime and move away at effectively faster-than-light speed. The interior of the bubble is an inertial reference frame and inhabitants experience no proper acceleration. This method of transport does not ...

  8. Random phase approximation - Wikipedia

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    Bubble diagrams, which result in the RPA when summed up. Solid lines stand for interacting or non-interacting Green's functions , dashed lines for two-particle interactions. The random phase approximation ( RPA ) is an approximation method in condensed matter physics and nuclear physics .

  9. Donald A. Glaser - Wikipedia

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    Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926 – February 28, 2013) was an American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics. [1] [2] [3]