What is the importance of bubbles in the book, The Disappearing Spoon?

Kean devotes an entire chapter to bubbles and the role they have played in scientific discoveries, demonstrating how very simple and commonplace phenomena can have an important role in furthering our understanding of the universe. Bubbles are an object that all readers will be familiar with, but Kean is asking them to think about these objects in a new way. By illuminating their contributions to science, Kean encourages readers to reevaluate the assumptions they might have made about the importance or significance of objects they take for granted. The importance of bubbles suggests that no phenomena is insignificant in our quest to understand more about the nature of our universe.