I wanna know what love is!

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Define love, mathematically. Go for it. I want you to show me!

I don't know if it can be defined mathematically...but anyhoo, I am also wondering what exactly this emotion is. So someone smarter then me explain

Love is infinite?

Last edited by Magnus on 26 Feb 2009, 6:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

1+1=1

What are you blaming me for? Somebody had to do it.

Hmm... there are 2 modeling approaches I can think of:

Love = 0
Love DNE

I think you're being a little harsh on "love" there. Let's define it like any other relation:
∀x:∀y: (x♥y & y♥x) => (x=y) :: antisymmetry
∀x ~(x♥x) :: antireflexive
∀x,y x♥y=>∃z!=x s.t. z♥y ::triangle principle

And voila, a recipe for a romantic comedy.

Last edited by twoshots on 26 Feb 2009, 9:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Haha, I was just about to.

GAH! Twoshots beat me to it.


How about Love={}

I'm not sure what d♥/dx is, but d♥/dt = 0 because true love is constant<------:lmao: GOD I'm good!

Love is a beautiful psychological state, much like joy or the emotion you receive after a significant accomplishment, albeit longer lasting. Nothing more, nothing less. Did I mention it's beautiful?

I have found myself, at times, in love with someone and frankly, it was a damned nuisance. It has to do with hormones and ideal concepts. The hormones are real enough but the ideals are mostly false projections and eventually the whole business goes away if you are lucky. It's something like the flu and it can, at times, be devastating and a horrible distraction from more important things.

Yup. Thats my experience as well.

Damn. We seem to have a rather negative outlook on love here.

I find interpersonal interaction in general not to be worth the trouble, and love seems to fall into that category as well.

In my experience it's an illusion, albeit a 'feel good' one. I'm mostly referring to instant or sudden attractions as illusions - they seem to fade like mirages, given time.

Unfortunately it's a very strong illusion and can trap you into very messy situations such as a marriage when you discover how much of an illusion it was. I was in love with my wife when we got married but although we discovered we each had some rather severe interpersonal problems we learned that the real human beings we were were very worthwhile and my marriage has lasted for almost 50 years. It takes al lot of understanding and perseverance and tolerance to get through the illusions of love but it can be great fun and full of awful experiences. But that's what life is about.