does gravity have any part in this-i mean the gravity of the sun-does it pull
the thing towards it??
Amazing pics....happy hump day Quasar 
Fabulous! I love the pictures of the bubbles. Endless possibilities!
OMG!
The pixs are magnificent!!!.
Made me gulp my morning cuppa java.
Whoa.
BTW, I've decided to do "A Short Story" chapter every Friday. 
Interesting how there are so many wild things up there in space. When you titled this, "Bubble Worlds", I thought about my own life with OCD thinking I should live in a bubble myself! *sigh*
What's up Quasar buddy? I hope you're doing terrific - just came by to say hello. I always learn somethin new on your site! What do they say? Another 'dent in the head' when you learn something new?
Hi Vishesh,
A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the Sun. They have a propensity to be highly affected (or perturbed) by relatively close approaches to the major planets. Some are moved into sungrazing orbits that destroy the comets when they near the Sun, while others are thrown out of the solar system forever.
Most comets are believed to originate in a cloud (the Oort cloud) at large distances from the Sun consisting of debris left over from the condensation of the solar nebula; the outer edges of such nebulae are cool enough that water exists in a solid (rather than gaseous) state. Asteroids originate via a different process, but very old comets which have lost all their volatile materials may come to resemble asteroids.
The streams of dust and gas thus released form a very large, extremely tenuous atmosphere around the comet (called the coma), and the force exerted on the coma by the Sun's radiation pressure and solar wind cause an enormous tail to form, which points away from the sun. The streams of dust and gas each form their own distinct tail, pointed in slightly different directions.
Comet Orbit
The tail of dust is left behind in the comet's orbit in such a manner that it often forms a curved tail. At the same time, the ion tail, made of gases, always points directly away from the Sun, as this gas is more strongly affected by the solar wind than is dust, following magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory.
Both the comet and tail are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible from Earth when a comet passes through the inner solar system, the dust reflecting sunlight directly and the gases glowing from ionisation. Most comets are too faint to be visible without the aid of a telescope, but a few each decade become bright enough to be visible with the naked eye.
Hi DaBich,
And a happy hump day to you!
Hi Katie,
Well we all live in our own little bubble inside a much greater bubble.
Some people are bubbly and full of joy, some caught in a bubble be
Hi Hill Country Gal,
Look forward to it, I'll be round later to see what Dubya has done to make you cry (with laugher) today
Hi Deb, I've been following your movies
I though you already lived in a bubble called YouTube
love the pics
thanks have great day
Amazing pictures even if I don't fully get the picture 
Did re-opened my own spot again!
(( hug ))
Wow, love the peacock-bubbles! They're divine! I'd love to have those on my wall (if I had a wall bigger than a tic-tac box, that is!)
Interesting comet pic too!
is bubbleworld available for vacations? because I need one desperately..
very good pictures by the way!
I have wondered if we were just a tiny particle in a much larger organism. Our earth is just an atom and we are tiny particles.
Hi ChristinA, Thanks!
And how is Luxorlight22 today?
Hi Anna-lys,
didn't fully get the picture?
Did the picture not open?
Or you can only see what youwant to see
Hi Annelisa,
if the wall is not big enough
One could ry the ceiling above!
Hi Q,
The expanding draft... , what do you mean by equilibrium here?
"Is cell life the ultimate manifestation of Nature in Nature" --- totally parallel to what i have been thinking!
And more cosmic spirals... (alluding to Artistic view of electrons, responsible for aurora, spiralling down magnetic field lines
And... synchronosity, I was digging up some mandelbrot stuff myself )
Have a nice day!
Hi BarnGoddess,
most people are looking for another dimension to escape too.
Virgin holiday islands, the Bahamas and the Bermuda Triangle, or the top of a mountain are as close as some can get to getting away in 3-dimensional space.
Hi Dr John, one could conceptualize you are a walking talking galaxy (or even pocket or island universe) to the particles, atoms, molecules and cells that reside in you.
Looking inside out!
A scanning electron microscope imahe of a single lymphocyte, a component of the human immune system.
Hi Sojourner, sharp question
There are so many equilibriums, I could have used Entropy.
The concept of entropy in thermodynamics is central to the second law of thermodynamics, which deals with physical processes and whether they occur spontaneously. Spontaneous changes occur with an increase in entropy. Spontaneous changes tend to smooth out differences in temperature, pressure, density, and chemical potential that may exist in a system, and entropy is thus a measure of how far this smoothing-out process has progressed.
In contrast, the first law of thermodynamics deals with the concept of energy, which is conserved.
Some may view the above to apply to the visible 'universe' as a whole.
Hydrostatic equilibrium is the reason stars don't implode, or explode. In astrophysics, in any given layer of a star, there is a balance between the thermal pressure (outward) and the weight of the material above pressing downward (inward). This balance is called hydrostatic equilibrium. A star is like a balloon. In a balloon, the gas inside the balloon pushes outward and the Earth's atmospheric pressure plus the elastic material supply just enough inward compression to balance the gas pressure. In the case of a star, the star's internal gravity supplies the inward compression. The isotropic gravitational field compresses the star into the most compact shape possible: a sphere.
Whilst others would argue that this applies to the 'visible' universe.
PS - Sojourner
"Is cell life the ultimate manifestation of Nature in Nature" --- totally parallel to what i have been thinking!
Hmmm parallel, think laterally or rather sequentially ... plasma, stars, planets, 'life'
The old chestnut are we the whole purpose behind the existence of the universe, are we the epitomy of what the universe can achieve (life, intelligent life, free thought, creativity) - or are we simply a random & spontaneous 'accident' per chance
I ant to make more time to spend here, especially with the last few entries... hopefully I will do that soon
thank you for continuing, for being you, and for sharing
Quasar,
This leaves me pondering.
"Is the 'visible world' or cosmos an isolated system, and not itself just a bubble in a larger sea.
How does it all hold together?
Is it all part of the body of the Divine?
As we are.
It seems that we are all connected ... the world to the other planets all perfectly balanced out ... what stops it all from bouncing about?
Something keeps it all safely apart.
Seems like there are so many interconnecting lights criss-crossing the expanse of the universe ... if one could see it from a different view point what really would it tell us?
:o) Just pondering on your sentance which led to the questions
ah!
so we are talking about the expanding universe... where everything seems to be running away from everything...
If i am correct, we are saying that things are accelerating away... not just constantly moving away... ?? Have we proven that gravity is not sufficient to hold the 'bubble' ? Are we still in the phase where the initial explosion is still causing acceleration and it has not 'damped'? -I mean, lets say a point explodes - something has to first accelerate away, then the counter force (if there is one, say gravity) will have to slow it down and eventually reverse the direction.. During the acceleration from the point of explosion, how can the accelerated particle know that there is counter force, when the resultant force is causing it to move away from the explosion?
Does the very fact that an explosion occured, proves that gravity was not sufficient to prevent the explosion??
---- Intelligence...
(cottoning along that thread of thought...)
how would we know that there is nothing more intelligent than us? what if we are not able to understand the higher intellectual stuff? perhaps we are the least that can happen in the universe... or perhaps there is no concept of greater or lesser!
In short: "hmmmm!". We should invent better nut crackers
Science and technology is amazing, the bubble pics are fabulous, my favourite colours.
I so love gazing at those two top pictures. Call me shallow, I don't mind! So beautiful!
Quasar!
Sometimes ore the whole time we are really small...*L*...
woahhh fantastic, and definitely mind expanding (or brain busting with a mental capacity like mine). thanks for this, and thanks for popping by new kid and for the link...
I came back to look at the magnificent pix again.
Q, you brighten my day. I'm sooooooo glad I found you.
Whenever I read about "spontaneous changes" I often think we say this because we really don't understand all of the processes involved.
Hi Candoor,
cruising, living, thinking, blogging
Always fun to drop by yours for a read
Hi Trinity, there are already many points of view, going around.
All from 'human' minds on this earth.
Some would seek to prove this, some would seek to prove that, mostly in timescales beyond our human existence
I am trying to adhere to the physical 'realities' as perceived by man - and explore the possibilities no matter how diverse
she smiles, thank you Quasar!
It is so wonderful ... people like yourself that can expand and delve.
Be diverse. The sky's the limit. But it is not ... for beyond that, and beyond that. I wonder how far we could unfold. Especially if we say it is Infinate.
Stange ... not sure is it sky's or skies ... you know what I mean.
Thank you.
Those photographs are absolutely gorgeous. Love to have a set on my wall ... to gaze at.
Hi Sojourner,
let me see if I can better specify. Gravity from where?
The combined mass and gravity from all the galaxies, planets and stars?
An additional greater central gravity upon which all else orbits, creating the cosmic event horizon or periphery?
What was before, and what is outside this periphery I still must ask.
For a moment imagine there is more (even if it were all 'created' by the same let us call it - big bang). What is outside the periphery or cosmic event horizon. Nothing at all?
Or is it simply that for the purposes of our calculations it really does remain the great unknown.
Then all our calculations could well be wrong - when it comes to precise measuring the universe, total mass, gravity, energy and all other song.
Water in Zero gravity See how when the efervescent tablet creates thousands of bubbles, and how inside the bubble some bubbles grow larger, and imagine if you will where the 'visible' cosmos is today being one of those bubbles inside a bubble, (and inside a ...).
If the universe has no external forces influencing or acting on it everything in the universe would try to reach equilibrium (across the expanse) - mass, density, temperature, pressure, and even Gravity in some low density plasma-like sea.
On Earth it seems no matter how much sweet water the river brings to the Sea, the Sea does not lose its salinity, whilst the air increases its acidity
PS - I meant cell life, and intelligent life in the same breath. I did not mean to imply that all humans are the higher intelligence, but rather but rather humans as one of many living organism. Nor would I presume to 'negate' that there may be a higher form than cell life.
Hi Elle, will be round to see how many have switched to energy efficient lighting
Hi Katie, if bubbles you be
champagne bubbles you must surely be
Hi Fancy, small!
yet within us each a universe we hold
Hi Alastair,
I was prompted to comment and tried to be brief. But each time I said a word, thought of how many different worlds (or meanings) each seemed to convey. Perhaps one should simply say Yes or No, but each avenue we are set to explore. Will be back for more.
Hi Hill Country Gal, and I you
Love your wild west manner & ways
Hi Leesa, alas
but we love spontaneity do we not
and even spontaneity we may presume to be predictable - or maybe not
lol Trinity, The Sky is the skies
or perhaps there's more than one.
I too would like them on my wall, if they could be twenty foot tall, and thirty foot wide, and have that 3-D feel, or perhaps painted or projected (a transparency projected) on fine curtains between two great halls!
Dearest Q
Donno how, donno when I'll follow up on these awesome posts (AH???)
"...nature of nature"
Just here to tell you are lovingly in my thoughts friend...
Thank you for your sweet visits
Oozles of dusties
hi Q,
I did misunderstand 'cell life'... adding that to the dictionary .
and what is outside the periphery, indeed.
Hi Casper,
I enjoyed both videos on the Inner Life of a cell side-by-side @the fractal universe
I'll be round to look at the snow crystals later.
Thanks for the mention! - Q.
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