[JumpCrisscross]

> Stride…was very interested in bubbles

This reminds me of Feynman s spinning plates.

It also drives home the serendipity of science. One can easily pander a researcher spending their days thinking about bubbles from a place of ignorance. Yet this is what basic research often looks like—play.

[sndean]

As someone who has worked on bubbles from a bioengineering/synthetic biology perspective, it is definitely play at some level. Like “what happens if we freeze dry them?” And of course determining which extremely specific kind works best for whatever application, etc.