This demo is inspired by a recent video on Steve Mould’s channel. It’s about creating a movable hole in soap film with a loop of cotton thread (the photo shows Simon sticking a pencil through such a hole). Once in the soap membrane, the cotton thread forms a perfect circle. It’s because the soap film tries to minimise its area and compress as much as it can. The only way that can happen is to maximise the area of the hole. And as we know, with a fixed perimeter, the biggest area that you can make with it is if you form that perimeter into a circle, Simon explains as I’m writing this.
Geeks out of the box 