The science of love...

I've come across this situation several times. An awkward situation in which in a group of people in a social gathering, one person turns to you and asks "So, what do you do?". It seems an honest introductory, applicable question to get to know a stranger. Well, you might as well throw the bucket as you can be sure you're highly probable on not seeing each other again, or you might devise a plan on not ever running into this poor person all your might! But I digress... So I say, "I study Physics" with a wide smile on my face.

In that blink of a second, you could see the person's face turned white or something and you quickly adjusted your smile so as not to pin the poor person soul onto the wall and hear him screaming "Why, out of many people here, why me? There goes my one night of the week!". This tell you so much why scientists are rarely invited to 'social gatherings', except when the host is actually a scientist.

Anyhow, he'll go on on asking how my study of Physics can actually be applicable in real life out of courtesy. I learnt over the few parties that I shouldn't talk jargons or else I'll end up eating away with the chips at the corner of the space alone. You see, it didn't register to me that most people see Physics as something that is entangled with equations for questions that they didn't care to ask and by attending Physics it's simply diminishing the beauty of the object of interest. It's sad that it's (the belief that Physics is a tedious Math) becoming more and more widespread these days, but I believe that the maths that we uses in Physics are inevitable, especially when you're curious about what's happening inside an atom. We're made up of atoms for that matter, aren't you interested in learning how and why we're doing what we do now?

If we're to trace back in time the birth of Physics, we'll all come to a conclusion that Physics is the 'nature philosophy'. So when we talk about the Physics of something we naturally proposed our theories based on the observations. Now that is SCIENCE, a theory that can be tested with experiments (Math is not science as it cannot be tested in actual experiments, but I don't think it is bad if it is not science. There are many other good things that need not be proved through experimental setups, like LOVE. Love is not science, but it's a good thing).

So we come to an example of the way people see flower for instance to look at the nature philosophy. What can you see in a pretty flower, like a hibiscus or a rose? The colors? The textures? And some more? Now lets look at it through the eyes of a scientist. Sure what you see is also observed by the scientist, but wait, there's more to it in the eyes of the latter. He sees how the color of the pigments of the flowers gets to be there in the first place. The interactions of many atoms in the plants cells that give out the glaring red color reflected by the white light into the eyes. In the one of the many atoms, he can imagine the electrons buzzing around the nucleus that give off energy to sustain the one cell, and it's the same process for every other cell, and these make up the petals, the leaves. And there are many other aspects that a scientist can imagine that will add up to the beauty of the flower, in a way that other people cannot see further. I don't see how science can subtract to the quality of the pretty flower seen. It, in particular Physics, can only add up, but never subtract.

Comment: And love remains an observer at the outside of the science field. Should it wants to come and join in, its wonderful magic can only be summed up by infinite positive exponential terms.