What is love?

Image of abstract geometric shapes representing continuity, symmetry, and harmony in a mathematical model of the universe.
A cosmic representation highlighting hyper-rationality, featuring spheres, octahedrons, and hexagonal plates, depicting continuity, symmetry, and harmony in an expansive geometric model of the universe.

by Bruce E. Camber
PERFECTION STUDIES: CONTINUITY•SYMMETRY•HARMONY GOALS February.2025

Thinking about Valentine’s Day
in preparation for St. Valentine’s Day 2017,
this article is the on-going development of February 24
that was initiated in 2017 on St. Valentine’s Day.

How might we answer that simple question,  “What is love?”
In light of the universe, some might proclaim…

  • “I don’t know.“ Yes, our knowledge of love is quite young. The universe is about 13.81 billion years old. Human beings have only been in the picture for a very small fraction of that time. Some folks may be maturing a bit; yet, most of us are like a baby when it comes to talking about love.  Embarrassed to give overly simple answers, for many it is easier to just say, “I don’t know!“
  • “It’s continuity, symmetry, and harmony.”   Such an answer gives us some direction. Through it all, we have learned how many now say that love (symmetry) is the greatest of all things and truly abides.
  • “It’s a living, robust view of the entire universe.” Sounds silly, but love could be defined as “a wholeness or fullness of being” where we feel at one with the universe or another person. Of course, we have a long way to go to figure that out. To that end, as most of our readers know, our high school kids created an integrated view of the universe with just over 200 notations. We used base-2 exponential notation from the Planck base units (the smallest measurements) to the Age of the Universe today (the largest using Planck Time). Here is a simple-but-comprehensive start to awaken our sensitivities to our world and community — http://81018.com/chart — and it opens all of life to us.  Using multiplication and division by 2, we see ourselves in light of an intimately-related universe. Sounds crazy, but it’s not. We are discovering how and why to be civil within our science and math lessons!

Much more to come…