Boyle's law

Boyle's Law for the expansion of gas describes the relationship between the pressure and volume of gas when kept at a constant temperature. If the gas is put under more pressure, its volume will decrease by a predictable amount. As the pressure is reduced, so the volume of gas will grow by the same level.

So what?

Consider a new Boyle's Law that we could call: Boyle's Law for the expansion of celebrity.

For the uninitiated, or the uninterested, Susan Boyleis the latest reality TV celebrity to be plucked from obscurity and thrust into the interstellar madness of global celebrity - 65million youtube hits no less.

Susan's break came on ITV show 'Britain's got a prime-time ready-made celebrity factory on ice' hosted by either Ant, Dec, both or neither.

Enough sneering. Susan actually does have talent and can belt out a tune with the best of them.

The problem for her is that the show wasn't set up to discover a middle-aged woman who had genuine talent with an apparent ability to make people warm to her.

So, after the final, which delivered a golden egg in the shape of a dancing troupe called Diversity, so the media campaign to generate acres of sympathetic free publicityand, dare I say, really kick start her career, engaged seamlessly with the baying pack.

Her visit to The Priory for 'rest' has the whiff of a planned ratcheting up of media tension - increasing the pressure. But in this case, increasing the pressure is designed to increase the volume too.

More pressure leads to more volume - at least that's the plan.

A bizarre parallel between the world of celebrity and the world of molecular chemistry could reduce some of the seemingly inevitable personal and psychological train-wrecks which befall the current celebrity crop.

For their sake, let's hope so.

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