So call me a hopeless romantic, but while sitting in the middle of a physics III lecture trying to take notes on the wave equation only to end up drawing pathetic little hearts in the margin, it occurred to me that quantum mechanics and love are surprisingly common in nature.
For instance, let us first consider the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principal. It states that the momentum and position of a particle cannot be both precisely known at the same instance. In the case of romance, one cannot get close to someone without knowing their feelings on the subject, and without getting close to someone, it's difficult to tell how they feel. Much like an equation with two variables, you cannot (easily) find one without the other. A conundrum indeed.
Secondly, both love and the quanta examined within quantum mechanics are generally intangible, with particular aspects that may or may not actually be empirically proven to exist. String theory is a lovely idea, but is no more possible to reproduce experimentally in a lab than true love. On the lucky occasion that something is shown to exist, such as exotic particle like a quark, it is present only fleetingly, and often cluttered with extraneous information that clouds the actual true results--much like human feelings.
Further more, love and lust are much like the wave/particle duality of light. Can one have romantic love without lust? Can light be only a wave? Both can be examined separately, but romance and light are both still affected by the intrinsic natures of both aspects simultaneously. Their inherent characteristics are part of the complete conditions of which they are both aspects.
In conclusion, I still have no idea what love is or if Schrodinger's cat is alive.
I really enjoyed your thoughts on the matter. I'm not a physicist by any means....in fact anything I've learned has been from minute physics on you tube. But the parallels are amusing. And when a person looks at whether or not there is a purpose to the universe I really hope the answer is love. Not romantic love because that's just biology....but the bigger kind. Because really what's the point of this big experiment called the universe?
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed my thoughts on this. I'm just glad to know that someone out there thinks like this too haha.
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