The sweetness is too high! It turns out that a "straight man" confession can be sweet beyond measure~~

Who says romance is only about sweet words and constant surprises?

"Straight men" are often considered to be synonymous with being unromantic and unromantic. In fact, if a straight man who is a top student plays romance, ordinary expressions may be "slightly inferior".

In the American TV series "The Big Bang Theory", "straight" scientists gave their partners hardcore gifts.

Arctic snowflakes brought back from a trip to the Arctic to survey slow magnetic monopoles

Source | The Big Bang Theory

The star necklace I brought with me when I went to the space station to install the telescope

Source | The Big Bang Theory

Using an atomic force microscope to carve initials into a heart shape one thousandth the size of a grain of sand

Source | The Big Bang Theory

So how does the scientific community express love in a "hardcore" way in real life?

My love for you is like the energy released by deuterium in sea water after nuclear fusion - it will be there for you to use until the end of time.

This sentence comes from the CCTV program "Let's Talk". The guest of this program is Lv Guanghong, Dean of the School of Physical Science and Nuclear Engineering of Beihang University and chief scientist of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

When talking about the nuclear fusion reaction of deuterium and tritium, Professor Lu summarized the characteristics of fusion energy with the words "sufficient and efficient". How sufficient is the energy released? Professor Lu said: "Enough for us to use until the end of time."

It was this "unending time" that inspired the host Sa Beining to come up with a "earthy love story" to interpret the meaning of this sentence. Of course, Professor Lu's use of the four words "unending time" to describe physical knowledge also gave scientific knowledge a unique romantic meaning.

Why is the deuterium and tritium nuclear fusion that Professor Lu talked about so "long-lasting"?

Currently, there are about 45 trillion tons of deuterium on Earth. Although tritium is rare, it can be synthesized artificially, which means that the electricity it generates can be enough for us to use for tens of billions of years.

However, this kind of nuclear fusion needs to be heated to hundreds of millions of degrees in order to occur. Therefore, this project, called "artificial sun", requires the participation of all mankind. This also makes it the second largest international cooperation project after the human space station.

On this basis, China's own fusion engineering test reactor has begun engineering design in 2017, and plans to build and operate the device in 2050.

Although nuclear fusion sounds far away from our daily lives, we are actually in contact with it every day. For example, the heat emitted by the sun is produced by fusion, and the shiny thing on the chest of "Iron Man" in movies and TV shows is a small nuclear reactor.

May you have a heart like Rupert's Tears, which is indestructible, but may there be someone who knows your heart and will break it in the slightest.

Doesn't this sound very touching? However, if you want to express your feelings with this sentence, you probably have to understand its connotation first.

Legend has it that in the 17th century, Prince Rupert, nephew of King Charles I of England, dripped molten glass into water to create these tadpole-shaped glass tears. This teardrop-shaped glass is very hard and will not break even if hit with a hammer. However, if the tail of the glass drop is broken, it will suddenly burst into powder. Why does this happen?

When molten glass is dropped into ice water, the surface of the glass cools rapidly to form a shell, while the glass underneath the shell remains liquid.

When the inner core of the glass droplet cools and condenses, the liquid glass naturally shrinks toward the solid outer shell due to the change in volume, causing the glass near the surface to be subjected to great compressive stress, while the core position is pulled toward the surroundings and subjected to tensile stress.

When the tail is damaged, these residual stresses are released quickly, causing the cracks to spread all over the body in an instant and shatter. According to high-speed photography, the cracks can spread at speeds of 1,450 to 1,900 meters per second, which creates the extremely shocking scene seen above.

After appreciating the "earthy love words", let's take a look at the romantic actions that scientists have put into practice. The first is the famous heart-shaped confession of René Descartes.

I give you a coordinate system of love, which contains my burning heart!

Everyone should be familiar with Descartes. He is a world-renowned philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. He is considered the father of analytic geometry because he formalized the geometric coordinate system. His confession also borrowed the geometric coordinate system.

The story begins in Europe in the 17th century, when the Black Death was raging on the European continent. Descartes, who was already 50 years old, drifted to Sweden and was hired as a mathematics teacher for Princess Christina.

The princess was smart and studious, and soon she became closer to Descartes because of their similar interests. However, the huge difference in age and status forced the king to forcibly separate the two. Not long after, Descartes fell ill and died. In his last letter before his death, he issued his final declaration of love to the princess: r=a(1-sinθ).

At that time, no one around understood the meaning of the letter when they saw it, but the princess immediately understood what Descartes meant.

She suppressed her inner sadness, picked up a pen and paper, established a polar coordinate system, and wrote down the points of the equation. When all the points were connected, the mystery was solved - Descartes expressed his passionate heart in the way he was best at and most obscurely.
Heart-shaped line when a=1 (data picture)

However, the authenticity of this tragic love story has been questioned by historians, and some even say that Descartes did not invent the heart-shaped line at all. Regardless of the authenticity of the story, the heart-shaped line at least exists, and its existence itself is romantic.

If drawing a heart in a coordinate system is special enough, then writing a paper to propose is even more creative.

If our previous love were written into a paper, it would definitely be the paper with the highest impact factor.

This happened to Australian physicist Bogus Wheel.

Her boyfriend, who had been dating her for seven years, wrote a paper to monitor their relationship in order to surprise her with a proposal. He wrote a paper to monitor their relationship, including the abstract, introduction, overview, conclusion, and acknowledgments. He even drew a data chart. Which girl could refuse such a tailor-made and creative proposal gift?

The arrangement of nucleic acid electrophoresis is in the shape of loving you

When it comes to marriage proposals, molecular scientists are not to be outdone. In 2012, a molecular scientist used polymerase chain reaction to assemble DNA into fragments of different shapes and sizes, and then used gel electrophoresis to separate and replicate the shapes, forming the classic love proposal: Will you marry me?

If the nucleic acids are arranged in the shape of love for you, would "Will you marry me" have more weight?

Scientists have such surprising ways of expressing their love. Have the above "hardcore" confessions captured your heart?

In fact, all external forms come from sincere expressions. As long as there is love in the heart, whether it is a scientist or an ordinary person, or the stars that have been to the sky or the meals made by oneself, I believe it is enough to move people's hearts.