In the mid-19th century, the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau — who had been designing and conducting scientific experiments since he was a child — submerged loops of wire in a soapy solution and studied the films that formed. When he bent his wire into a circular ring, a soap film stretched across it, creating a flat disk. But when he dipped two parallel wire rings into the solution…
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