Monday, November 2, 2009

Theory of Love

I discovered the theory of love one morning after having a concussion from attempting some advanced dance moves on the dance floor at a wedding the previous night.

The theory come in two parts.

1. Love is real.

2. Love can be measured.

Simple, irrefutable, and brilliant. I guess that 99% of people would agree with the first part. The second part on the other hand, I expect to be disputed by many (I guess at least 50% of people at this time).

The reason I believe it is possible to measure love is because I felt it that morning like an electromagnetic attraction to all things. And between Melissa and I as she took care of me, and worried about the state of my head. And I believe that we can build a technology that can replicate the senses involved in my feeling of that force, energy, substance, or whatever it was.

Now, many may say, "this is not science, this is hog wash!" But, that only reminds me of Rivers Cuomo of Weezer and Harvard University. I heard him on the radio the other day talking about the negative response he gets to, "I have a scientific approach to music," versus the positive response he gets to, "I have an experimental approach to music." See, to him, science and experimentation are the same thing.

I'm in that boat. Science is all about experimentation. If you want to say, "this is not science," I hope it is because it cannot be tested, and not simply because you do not believe it. Too much, I believe that modern science is simply a new religion, all about beliefs, and not about actual observation of the natural world. Lets go play in nature and discover something.

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