Re: Love intensity, distance and time

[Aiviet Nguyen <aiviet@cat.syr.edu>]

Hi all,
 I want to add just one idea to your extreemely interesting discussion:
 I think the intensity of love is not a single value function. As any 
dynamic system ( sorry, entropy again) love has stabel, chaotic, 
bifurcation state). There should be catastrof.
  The evidence is that with the same distance and time the intensity 
depends also on the path leading to that point.
 If you want to know more than the concept of single value functions
in such dynamical systems we can ask Anh Tien Zung to give a brief 
review of this very exciting are of Math.
  Cheers
 Aiviet 

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Tuan V Nguyen wrote:

> Hello La^m, Vu~, Minh Hie^`n and all the lovers,
> 
> 	To me, in love there are three variables, namely, 
> intensity of love (I), distance (D) and time (T). Now, 
> according to your hypothetical graph, I is a Gaussian 
> function of T or D. But, I think it is probably more 
> complicated that this. 
> 
> 	Sure, firstly I have to make the assumption that T 
> and D are independent, which seems quite realistic. Now, 
> practical experience show that I increases very rapidly 
> during the first short time period, and then decline 
> progressively. I imagine that it would be something like
> 
> 
>   I (intensity of love)
> 	|
>     	|     *
> 	|   *   *
> 	|  *       *
> 	| *           *
> 	|*              *
> 	|                  *  
> 	|                     * *  * *
> 	------------------------------- T(time)
> 
> 
> 	So, it looks like a log-normal distribution, rather 
> than the Normal distribution. This makes sense, because of 
> most of the behaviour and biological phenomenon follow the 
> log-normal distribution.
> 
> 	OK, let us now turn to the function of I and D. Well, 
> I do not have much experience in this functional 
> relationship, but according to our old saying "xa ma(.t 
> ca'ch lo`ng", I could reasonably translate this statement 
> into a negative exponential function, i.e. 
> 
> 
>   I (intensity of love)
> 	|
>     	|*   
> 	| *          
> 	|   *          
> 	|     *          
> 	|        *         
> 	|           *  * * *  
> 	---------------------- D (distance)
> 
> Then, given the independence of D and T, you can see that 
> the functional relationships between I, intensity of love, 
> in relation to T and D are quite complicated. 
> 
> 	Now, the challenge for you now is to derive this 
> functional form, e.g. I = F(T, D) = ?
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 
> 	Tuan V Nguyen
> 
> 
> >Ddo' la` 1 pha^n bo^' hi`nh chuo^ng, co' le~ le^.ch tra'i, ne^'u coi love
> >la` bie^'n phu. thuo^.c va` tho+`i gian resp. khoa?ng ca'ch la` bie^'n
> >ddo^.c la^.p. Va^'n dde^` la` pha?i xa'c ddi.nh median o+? dda^u tho^i.
> >Ve~ ra dda^y cho de^~ hi`nh dung
> >
> >    intensity of love
> >	|
> >    	|    _
> >	|   / \
> >	|  /     \
> >	| /         \
> >	|/            \
> >	|                -_
> >	---------------------- time; distance
> >
> >Ve~ ho+i xa^'u, mong ca'c ba'c hie^?u y' ta.i hi`nh ngoa.i.
> >
> >Tha^n,
> >La^m.
> 
>