quick trivial question!

skillzmanifest · Senior Member

quick trivial question!

firstbendman · Senior Member

skillzmanifest wrote:

For those that shape my facination with the circle and the concept of it. Why out of all shapes, does a bubble assume a spherical structure?

Bwana Skillz,

This is beyond our knowledge. Si za Masters or PhD zimenezi? Mwatizunguza nazo bongo. This is one of the reason we didnot go further with our education. Tinathawa zimenezi. Pliz musatitengele kokatiyesa.

abre les ojos · Guru

The reason is because there is an equal amount of outward pressure and inward surface tension. I think - if I'm not mistaken - it has something to do with la place's law. Something called minimal surface structures. This means that they always hold the gas or liquid inside of them with the least possible surface area. The geometric form with the least surface area for any given volume is always a sphere.

Doesn't make sense. Not to worry. It didn't to me.