What exactly happens when a balloon bursts?
We have all popped the odd balloon at some time or another, but the event happens so quickly that you likely don't know how exactly the balloon goes *pop*.
A newly discovered model reveals that balloons can actually burst in two different ways. A balloon with low internal pressure bursts through the growth of a single crack in the balloon. Alternatively, if the pressure increases above a critical point, the balloon ends up breaking apart from multiple cracks.
This video by Science Take explores these two newly discovered models of how a balloon bursts!
