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A Glorious Marriage Proposal!

By Hoody Wayes -25 February 2013
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The lady (and bride-to-be) writes, "My boyfriend of 7 years and I are both physicists. Here's how he proposed to me.":

http://imgur.com/SKNl3VR

N.B. Great commentary from reddit readers:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/194ilz/my_boyfriend_of_7_years_an...

Run_Fido_Run on 25 Feb 2013 - 9:56am #

Was the study peer reviewed?

Hoody Wayes on 25 Feb 2013 - 10:14am #

One of the reddit readership asked your very question. There's some very funny comments, there:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/194ilz/my_boyfriend_of_7_years_an...

Run_Fido_Run on 25 Feb 2013 - 10:24am #

Good stuff - thanks for the link.

Hoody Wayes on 25 Feb 2013 - 10:51am #

You're welcome!

BuckeyeNinja on 25 Feb 2013 - 9:59am #

very creative and sweet. I wish you a happy life together

OSUStu on 25 Feb 2013 - 10:12am #

The error bars on that graph are huge! That leaves a lot of room for uncertainty. I would suggest further study.

Just kidding. This is pretty cool.

Hoody Wayes on 25 Feb 2013 - 10:14am #

Yours, too:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/194ilz/my_boyfriend_of_7_years_an...

OSUStu on 25 Feb 2013 - 10:47am #

Haha. Indeed. This guy/gal nailed it:

[–]Rheyah 42 points 1 day ago

A couple of initial points:

I remain concerned about the lack of elucidation on the nature of the multi-body interactions occurring on an apparently frequent basis. While it does not appear to have perturbed the main studied system, the likely frequency of these interactions does not appear to be represented in the results other than the substantial presence of error bars. Could the author please elaborate on the effect of these perturbations.

The use of the non-standard unit "year" is frowned upon. Please change to SI units (for reference: given the long time span of this potential study, sidereal days would be acceptable). Happiness is of course measured in kilopuppies.

The suggestion is that the fitted data will continue on an exponential fit. Would the author care to elucidate on whether he expects this relationship to continue despite the more closely bound state and what evidence he has to suggest this. What method has he used to produce projected data. Are his projections representative of similar studies of similar multi body couplings and do they account for the possibility of external interactions causing potential perturbations.

The use of a check box for soliciting feed back is most unconventional. Please refrain from using such in the future.