If love is a chemical reaction, I say if, will scientist ever be able to reproduce it?
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If so, what do you think the elements will be that this reproduced love will consists of?
If you are not into physics, give the ingredients that you think will be in it. Chocolate? Rose buds? Kitty paws?
How much would you be willing to pay for a little bottle of L.O.V.E.? Edit: To spray on yourself and to attract.
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Sure. Dopamine (carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen), oxytocin (same as the other one, with some sulfur), vasopressin (same as oxytocin).
As for the price, I’m not sure I’d pay much for something that you can find in great abundance for free.
Sure, they could come up with the right combination of hormones, pheromones, viagra, and dopamine to make you feel head over heels ready to hop in the sack. But they might have to put you on an IV drip….
Yes, it will be able to be reproduced.
I’m not sure. Mostly because, it isn’t just one chemical reaction, is it? Even if it is entirely just chemical—it’s many reactions over time that create love. Infatuation, attraction, sure; instantaneous responses to marketable spray-on pheromones. But unless they can bottle time, I’m thinking no, not love.
They may be able to reproduce the chemical high but they will not be able to fake the sights, sounds, touch, smell and vibrations I feel of my lover. Soft hair and skin, touch, laughter and a smile does not come in a pill bottle.
@Cruiser Yeah, it was a pretty nice painting, eh?!
I guarantee if scientists chemically reproduced love it would be considered a controlled substance. Scientists already compare love to a drug addiction. [1]
It would be left to the scientists, wouldn’t it? Let’s see…chemists? That seems to obvious. Biologists…also too obvious. What about the physicists? Hmm…attraction, forces…might work…
Love is of the non-physical, immortal, spiritual being (you and me) and is a large part of our native nature and has nothing at all to do with the material universe, physical human bodies.
I was just having fun with the question…
The chemistry of love is generated in us by our interactions with others. I’m doubtful that it can go the other way around. Create the feeling of attraction inside someone and they’ll attach that feeling to the next person they see? Even if you threw together two random people who had been souped up with the love potion, I don’t think that would be a surefire way of getting them together.
It’s not just chemical chemistry. It’s chemistry with who the person is and what they like to do.
They created it years ago.
It’s called Jack Daniels and 2AM. ;)
Unicorn giggles & Tinkerbell’s cleavage.
Yeah baby!
Such a bottle of love would be a hard drug like heroin or cocaine. People would abuse it.
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