Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It

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All things are numbers. According to Pythagoras,

within every single thing in this world you will always find numbers.

Everything in the universe functions according to the rule of numbers.

Therefore, everything can be explained and understood through calculation.

The manipulation of numbers. Since this discovery,

multitudes of eminent scientists have mathematically proven many great truths.

However, on the other hand, there are many,

many mysteries that remain unproven and unexplained

in our story. One of the most

difficult of those mysteries is about to be resolutely confronted.

It is the story of a group of very particular young people.

You should try eating some real food once in a while. Yukimura.

This is sufficiently nutritious. You could also benefit from exposure to sunlight.

Serotonin deficiency can be a hindrance to cerebral efficiency.

Thanks for the advice. What really matters

is that your three minutes late.

Two minutes and 32 seconds. For the record,

in science and engineering, you need to be more precise about time.

Save your arguments till after you've made

up for the three minutes you've already wasted.

That handicap works for me. What's more

important is you have time to hurry

up with that polynomial time reduction,

right? Your presentation is due soon.

I've determined the objective already. It's the Hamiltonian path problem.

And I assume you'll just copy Richard Karp's work again.

I'm using it as a reference, but my work is totally original,

so don't assume your assumptions are correct.

I still look forward to seeing your convoluted presentation.

I'll be sure to rate it simply

enough so that even your brain can comprehend it.

By the way, Yukimura, what. Is it now, Himuro?

It appears I have fallen in love with you.

Je n'ai pas de deux.

Wait, what? What did you just say?

I seem to be in love with you, Yukimura.

I myself have no experience with what

might be called romance. However, he morrow,

I do consider you an intelligent and worthy rival.

And I suppose that if pressed for an answer,

I couldn't say that I have no affection for you.

Be that as it may, I don't

know if I'm in love with you or not.

First, how exactly does one define love?

Can you provide any empirical evidence that you're in love?

Of course, determining that without credible data

means I'd be a failure as a scientist.

This is the data that supports the hypothesis

that I am in love with you.

The numbers aren't fully verified yet. It's a work in progress.

Significant increase in heart rate when I'm with him.

Percentage of dreams he's appeared in. Well,

now I understand basing a conclusion on data like this.

It's a personal opinion, nothing more true.

For the moment. Let's put it like this.

Yes, we want to prove that love and love prime are equal,

but with that correlation, concur with what is generally known as love.

There seemed to be too many factors that are excessively generalized.

Time. I've been captivated by the sight of him thinking,

wait, that doesn't seem right. Um.

What is it?

Nothing, really. I began growing more conscious of you

after you appeared in a dream on April 12th.

The frequency is shown on this graph.

Being in your dream leads to increased awareness.

I've had lots of people in my dreams.

Have even had you and a few of them.

What exactly happened between us in your dream?

Is that information really necessary? You can

tell me if the information is accurate. Then having more won't hurt.

Well, then we held hands.

We have to document this accurately.

Ambiguous phraseology will only hinder a.

Now listen, Yukimura. You said I appeared

in some of your dreams too, didn't you?

What exactly happened between us in those dreams?

Is that information really necessary? You can

tell me if the information is accurate, then having more won't hurt.

Well, then we held hands. What? What did you just say?

This point of commonality. Is it coincidence? Huh?

At this stage, I can't say for

certain, though it does show relevance.

Good morning. Oh. Hi, Himuro. Hi there. Yukimura.

Wow. Looks like you're here. Which means that.

Romantic affection and its determination can be

rendered in a formula like this.

A is in love with B. Parentheses.

A and B belong to the category of human close parentheses.

If by discovering the conditions which generally indicate love,

we can construct a Turing machine like this. And then.

Then that means we can determine whether I love you or not.

Now I see where you're going.

And that's not all. With this kind of formula,

we can even determine whether I love you or not.

This topic is much more interesting than I thought, right?

And I thought romance was something only

for idiots who run on impulses and mindless urges.

Even romance appears to be an aggregation of numbers and data.

So is love a zero or a one? That's what we'll find out.

What are these crazy people talking about? It's ridiculous.

Yukimura, we shouldn't be doing this at all.

We're not done with our experiment. Please don't try to escape. Yuki.

Mora. Uh, right. We're done. Starting at 3:27

p.m. for 10s experiment conducted using the common wall slam.

Hmm. Interesting. Trembling due to nervousness. Vocal agitation.

It's clear you're not used to this sort of experimentation. Yukimura.

Kimura. We're not interested in that kind of data.

The really important thing here is your heart rate. How was it?

Pulse is 147. That's about par for a full on sprint.

Mm. Interesting. Your heart rate was quite elevated.

At any rate, if we continue these sorts of experiments,

we may be able to find the evidence

as to whether I love you or not.

Yukimura. Let's try the next one. Right.

Don't even think about asking me what

the two of them are up to.

Preconditions for believing you're in love with someone. Are you serious.

Kanade? What would make you think you've fallen in love with someone?

What, me? I'm a. Wait a minute. Let me see.

Oh, this kind of thing. When I feel my heart racing,

that kind of thing, I guess.

Probably heart racing. That's one of the conditions Himuro listed to.

That's right. Exactly. It's the heart rate.

If we monitor the heart rate, we can

quantitatively measure thrilling palpitations of love.

Let's get the heart rate monitor ready.

We can start the experiments immediately.

Let's do it now then. These making

the heart race situations I am.

I think we ought to continue them. Yes, we.

Should wall slam first. Then we can, uh.

We could, uh. Then what? Well, we can

always look it up on the internet.

Sources for online information are generally unverifiable,

but we have no choice. You.

The ideal angle for a chin seems

to be between 30 and 40 degrees.

It appears to be the same as artificial respiration.

I wonder if opening the airway is the objective. You.

Stand behind them and roll their sleeves up.

Significance. Could an action like this have?

I don't know, but the height differential is very exacting.

They say 23cm is ideal. We should

check on the academic corroboration of this action.

Now what? Sweet potato fries. We would

need some sweet potato fries for this one.

If my hypothesis is correct. Yukimura, would

you please take your glasses off? What hypothesis can you explain?

I knew I was right. Right. About what?

Forget it. Let's get on to the next.

Out of all the things we've tried,

actions that reduce distance between us seem

to have a tendency to exponentially increase heart rate.

Don't tell me you're tired of this already.

I'd say this brings us as close as possible.

Let's stay this way for a while.

The more we lengthen the test period, the more data we collect.

That is essentially true. But then, um.

She. She's gone and fallen asleep. Now

what? Should I hold the experiment?

What does she have the audacity to look so happy?

And what are the exact components comprising this sweet fragrance?

Okay. We've tried many different situations. This

is your heart rate during the experiment, Himuro.

In every case, you'll notice very high peak readings.

Um, question that last part on the right.

Sort of. It looks like she was feeling super relaxed there.

Don't pay attention to that. It was a system glitch.

At any rate, there's no denying Himuro's

heart was racing like a bat out of hell.