Marriage proposal in the form of a physics paper

Redditor bogus_wheel is a physicist in Sydney, Australia. Her boyfriend of seven years submitted a marriage proposal in the form of a physics paper that tracks their relationship (with a graph!). It is a beautiful piece of physics romance!

My boyfriend of 7 years and I are both physicists. Here's how he proposed to me. (imgur.com) (Thanks, Mark M!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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theophrastvs

textbf{nice} use of LaTeΧ, as well.
- http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis
  
  ooh, kinky
ldobe

Well, I’ve got my daily D’awwww.

That’s awesome. Congratulations to them!
Hegelian

I love the error bars in the graph :-)

I’m wondering, though, is this a published, peer reviewed proposal?
Petzl

“[T]he author proposes [...] the indefinite continuation of the study.”

So romantic!
Bink Binkerson

This is non-peer-reviewed hackery. Send it to the Museum of Creation Science, Futtbuck, Kentucky.
Keith Achorn

I hope it survives the peer review process.
Peter Hill

I know that graph! It is a reproduction of the one on this page: http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2007/12/11/making-pretty-graphs/

It uses different random data and looks to be done in python rather than matlab, though.
alesloan

“Hang on, are you saying you had a CONTROL GROUP while we were already DATING?”
- Petzl
  
  ”Honey, trust me. It was all for science!”
Matthew Heberger

I am a bit concerned that their happiness, while increasing over time, is also showing increased variance.
- apoxia
  
  The increasing variance may be due to the introduction of one or more tiny bodies to the two body interaction.
http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Dr. Chronobiologist

One paper in 8 years? ONE PAPER IN 8 YEARS!?! And it’s only a single page with what appears to be a nonsense graph ripped off from the internet.

With a bit of hustle from the research team we could have had a respectable 3 body problem and been studying the gravitational effects of elementary school.

Cut the program, we can’t afford lazy research like this.

(I kid, I kid. Congrats to the research team.)
cellocgw

I, for one, am foolishly pleased to see the publication date is my birthday.
Science Girl

Who says scientists aren’t romantic?
- http://twitter.com/mobiimeer Mubashir Masood
  
  yes u r romentic.. hence proved
http://profile.yahoo.com/OMHO6ER5QJE3SIZ35VAXIRCLYM Stephan

He’s only projecting into the next four years?
That sounds about right ….
dbandal

So happy to see the upward curve and all data trending in the right direction!
http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

That is so, uh, I’ll guess, romantic?
http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

They say love is double blind.
russ cochran

imagine the offspring, that blend of chromosome are going to be brewed to perfection date: time: level of excitement:…. but when it gets here… oh sh*t the babys just puked on me how can i put this theory into better practice…. evolution man!
russ cochran

and i just thought wtf will the stag do be like? vegas watch out…..
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=677895916 Kate Dunn

I love it!! But I am a scientist, and my non-scientist boyfriend doesn’t think it’s quite so great…
http://profile.yahoo.com/U7XZZL6NUPTC227UT443LKMCJY starstar

How about happiness after marriage, I hope it still goes uphill.
zombiebob

but seriously, I wish much continued love and funky molecular bonding for the happy pair bond