[Nov 24]LONDON,UK--A bubble enclosing 50 children has set a new
record of having the highest number of kids bound in a bubble before
bursting.
The bubble was 11ft across and more than 5ft high before
it burst. (enlarge
photo)
The creator of the bubble was bubbleologist Sam Heath
who shaped it at the Science Museum in London.Mr Heath used the
wand - a large hoop - to make a bubble enclosing the whole group,
succeeding at the fourth attempt.
The children, all of whom had to be over 5ft, squeezed
on a stage surrounded by a moat of soapy water, reports the Daily
Mail.
Heath, then, dipped a wand - a metal hoop with a 36ft
circumference - into the solution, before raising it above their
heads.
Heath had briefly held the record in 2006,
when he encased 19 school kids in a bubble in Surrey. The new bubble
has popped the previous record of 42 bubble-bound children.
The record breaker coincided with the opening
of the museum's flagship interactive gallery of physics phenomena,
entitled Launchpad.
Launchpad features 50 new, live, previously-unseen
interactives, devices and experiments. Visitors launch rockets,
capture multicoloured shadows, turn heads into sound boxes and control
magnetic clouds.
