Bubble

Bubble or Bubbles may refer to:

Physical bubbles

• Liquid bubble, a globule of one substance in another, usually gas in a liquid
• Soap bubble, a bubble formed by a type of soapy water (a thin film of liquid)
• Antibubble, a droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas
• Microbubbles, are bubbles smaller than one millimetre in diameter, but larger than one micrometre

Arts and literature

• Bubbles (painting), an 1886 painting by Sir John Everett Millais, also used to market Pears soap
• Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology, a 2011 translation of the 1998 text by Peter Sloterdijk
• Bubbles Yablonsky, the protagonist in a series of mystery novels
• Speech balloon or speech bubble, a graphic convention used primarily in comics and cartoons

Astronomy

• Local Bubble, the cavity which contains the Solar System
• Bubble Nebula (NGC 6822), an emission nebula in Barnard's Galaxy
• NGC 7635 (also known as the Bubble Nebula), an emission nebula in the Milky Way galaxy
• Stellar-wind bubble, a large cavity in the interstellar medium created by a star's energy
• Superbubble, a large structure created by multiple supernovae

Economics

• Economic bubble, a situation where market prices are unsustainable
  • Dot-com bubble, a specific economic bubble in the 1990s
  • Real estate bubble, economic bubble involving unsustainably valued property
  • Stock market bubble, an economic bubble involving over-valued stock
  • Tulip bubble, an economic bubble in the 1630s and a metaphor for other economic bubbles
  • Chinese property bubble (2005–11)

Sociology/politics

• Selective exposure theory
• Echo chamber (media)
• Communal reinforcement
• Reinforcement theory
• Groupthink
• Westminster Bubble, isolation among United Kingdom government employees
• Inside the Beltway
• Filter bubble, result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user

Film

• Bubbles (film), a 1930 short film featuring a pre-stardom Judy Garland
• Bubble (film), a 2005 improvised thriller directed by Stephen Soderbergh
• The Bubble (1966 film), a science fiction film
• The Bubble (2006 film), an Israeli drama about a gay romance

Music

• Bubbles, a record label owned by Erlend Øye and Marcin Oz of The Whitest Boy Alive
• Bubbles (band), Swedish group

Songs

• "Bubble" (Fluke song), from Oto, 1994
• "Bubbles" (Biffy Clyro song), from Only Revolutions, 2009
• "Bubbles", a version of the song "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" adapted as anthem of the West Ham United football club
• "Bubbles", from Steal This Album!, 2002
• "Bubbles", by Frankie Laine, written by Bob Merrill, 1955
• "Bubbles", by The Free Design from Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love, 1970
• "Bubbles", by Norman Connors from You Are My Starship, written by Shunzo Ono, 1976
• "Bubbles", by Pop Will Eat Itself, first released as B-side to "Beaver Patrol", 1987
• "Bubbles", by Spooky Tooth from It's All About, 1968
• "Bubbles", by Herbie Hancock from Man-Child, 1976

Television

• The Bubble (game show), a British game show hosted by David Mitchell
• Bubble, a character in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous
• Bubbles, a character in the animated TV series Jabberjaw
• Bubbles, two iterations of a character in the The Powerpuff Girls franchise:
  • Bubbles, in The Powerpuff Girls
  • Bubbles (Miyako Gotokuji), in Powerpuff Girls Z
• Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys), a character in the Canadian series Trailer Park Boys
• Bubbles (The Wire), a character from the HBO series The Wire
• Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F
• Bubbles DeVere, a character in the TV series Little Britain
• Bubbles (The Adventures of Little Carp), an anthropomorphic fish from The Adventures of Little Carp
• Bubbles, a contestant on Real Chance of Love season 1 and Charm School 3
• The Dirty Bubble, one of Mermaid Man's enemies in SpongeBob SquarePants
• "Bubbles", a 1997 episode of the series Teletubbies

Video games

• Bubble Ghost, a French 1987 video game
• Bubbles (video game), a 1982 arcade video game by Williams Electronics
• The main character in the video game Clu Clu Land
• Bubble, an enemy in The Legend of Zelda series
• Score Bubbles, gameplay items from LittleBigPlanet
• Bubble Bobble a 1986 arcade game by Taito released for NES

People and animals

• Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher; 1942–1983), English graphic artist and album cover designer
• Bubble Boy (disambiguation), (or 'boy in the bubble'), a person who must live in a sterile environment for medical reasons
• Bubble Eye, a variety of goldfish
• Bubbles (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee who lived with Michael Jackson
• Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere (1933–1992), English socialite and actress
• William Milbourne James (1881–1974), child model for the painting and soap advertisement Bubbles
• Beverly Sills (1929–2007), opera singer
• A hippopotomus who escaped from Lion Country Safari, in Irvine California

Fictional characters

• Bubbles, a character in the 2003 film Finding Nemo
• Bubbles, a muppet character that appeared in The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth and The Muppets
• Bubbles, a character on the Canadian television series Trailer Park Boys
• Bubbles, a fictional character from Angry Birds
• Mr. Bubbles, from Lilo & Stitch

Other

• Bubble (computing), a delay in pipeline
• Champagne (wine), sparkling wine or Champagne, colloquially known as bubbles
• Bubbles (band), a Swedish girl group
• Bubble Act, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain requiring all joint-stock companies to have a Royal Charter
• Bubble and squeak, a traditional English vegetable dish; usually based on mashed potatoes and "left over" vegetables
• Bubble chamber, a particle detector in physics
• Bubble wrap, a packaging material
• Hi-Riser (automobile), a sedan customized by increasing the ground clearance and adding large-diameter wheels
• Carbonation, the process of adding bubbles to soft drinks
• Bubble, the nickname for the helmet logo of the Detroit Lions
• Bubble, a symbol used in logic gate diagrams
• Bubble, a term used in poker tournaments
• Bubble, in selecting the field, for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
• Bubble, an interpersonal space
• Slang for Mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant

See also

• All pages beginning with "Bubble"
• All pages with titles containing Bubble
• Bulla (disambiguation), Latin for "Bubble"
• Bub (disambiguation)
• Bubb (disambiguation)
• Bubblin' (disambiguation)