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| A wirdou.com chemistry of love stylized image (Ѻ), conceptualizing love as the formation of a perfect chemical bond, a covalent bond in particular, between sodium and chlorine. |
See main: Chemistry of loveIn human chemistry, love is an umbrella term that encompasses the overall emotional and energetic evolution state of the process of a spontaneous combination reaction between two human molecules, in which commonly two previously unattached people, A and B, collided in life (reaction existence) to unite in the form of a dynamic AB couple: [2]
A + B → AB
See main: NeurochemistryIn the late 20th century, researchers began to discern the neurochemical and neuroanatomical underpinnings of love.
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| A 2015 Instagram post (Ѻ) on love and reality and whether or not one should be realistic about love. |
See main: Thermodynamics of loveIn human thermodynamics, love is a term that is quantified by the release of functional or usable work energy, particularly Gibbs free energy, out of a thermodynamic system during an evolution cycle. One of the first to write semi-correctly about the thermodynamics of love was American computational chemist David Hwang in his 2001 article "The Thermodynamics of love". [4]
“Love is gravitation toward a beautiful object.”— Ortega y Gasset (c.1920) [9]
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible. But of love I know only that mixture of desire, affection and intelligence that binds me to this or that creature. That compound is not the same for another person. I do not have the right to cover all these experiences with the same name.”— Albert Camus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus [8]
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”— Francois La Rochefoucauld (c.1865)
“There are many people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.”— Francois la Rochefoucauld (1665), Maxims (#136) [7]
