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Given optimal conditions (say room temp, no air currents, no water evaporation, etc), would a soap bubble in water last "forever", or would it eventually burst?

When I see soap bubbles, usually they last for a little while (say, 15-20 minutes), but eventually they blow up. Now, is this because of some disturbance (air current, dust particle, wave motion of the water underneath), or does the soap bubble begin to "wear down" over time?

Now, if indeed they would wear down over time without some outside process, what causes this wear down? Are the components of the soap disintegrating, or is it something else?
gpt
It all comes down to energy in the system.  There is surface tension in a soap bubble.  In order to lower the free energy of the system, the surface of the bubble will break and allow the liquid to pool together in a smaller volume, which would be energetically favorable even under perfect conditions.  Think about a bubble on a table. The upper portion away from the table it's resting on will have a lower potential energy by dropping closer to the table, which will lower the free energy in the system.  Even in zero g, the surface tension of the bubble will be reduced by eliminating the air pocket and reducing the bubble to a droplet of liquid.  So even under ideal conditions, the bubble will eventually burst, but the time it takes could be much longer than your normal observation if the conditions were correct.

TL;DR Bye bye bubbles.