Great Minds Don't Post to Their Blogs at 4 in the Morning.

So... here it is almost 4am and I just created a blog. Weird, huh? I'm having a hard time sleeping because I just lost one of my best friends into the dating vortex where love turned into something else. If you've seen Dave and I together recently, you're probably stumped... as am I. Things were great, we get on like bread and butter, but sometimes bread prefers jam, a slice of cheese, or to just be a plain ol' piece of bread. (In case you're wondering, I'm the butter in this scenario.) The difficult thing is butter isn't good all by itsself, you know? It's just too much of a good thing and needs some bread to balance it out. So, I need to find a slice in another flavor. Rye? hm. funny aftertaste. Cinnamon Swirl? Haven't had much luck with the fancy ones. :) Sourdough, where art thou? In usual fashion, I'm getting carried away with an analogy, but you get the picture.

Isn't it strange how people that are perfect together end up apart? You see it all the time.

Exhibit A: My dear friends M & B.

So why does this happen? I think I'll use the scientific method to help me figure it all out.

QUESTION: How do two happy people that love each other end up not sticking together?

RESEARCH: hmmm..... Thinking back to that one semester of Chemistry.... (Actually, it was "Physical Science" -an amalgum of physics and chemistry in high school. No budget for real subjects anymore.) What causes bonds to break apart? Especially strong ones? See following diagram:


Did that clear things up for you? For you simpletons, I'll break it down. Here's an interesting quote that I didn't write myself.

"For any particular chemical bond, say the covalent bond between hydrogen and oxygen, the amount of energy it takes to break that bond is exactly the same as the amount of energy released when the bond is formed. This value is called the bond energy."

So, to summarize, it will take the exact amount of time and energy it took to bond/fall in love as it will take to break the bond/fall out of love.

"There are many forms of energy:"

• electrical- in love, i suppose this is the equivalent of lightning striking? Love at first sight, perhaps?
  
• mechanical- This could mean some kind of machine (YSA event)to bring two people together
  
• chemical- hmm... many singles events include alcohol or some other pleasure-inducing substance such as cookies.
  

"but all forms are ultimately converted into heat. So it is convenient for biologists to measure energy in unit of heat. The unit we shall use most often is the kilocalorie (kcal): the amount of heat needed to warm 1 liter of water 1 degree Celsius."
There's usually some heat associated with love ;) I wonder how many kilocalories are released in this bond-breaking. Enough to shed my winter belly?

According to ScienceWatch, "For more than 30 years the precision with which lasers can provide energy has transformed many sciences, and tantalized chemists with the possibility of selectively breaking chemical bonds." So lazers are involved. I thought so.

Here is my HYPOTHESIS:

Tantalized (and most likely, lonely) Chemists + LAZERS = precision break-ups.