Neil deGrasse Tyson | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #420
Q: And tell me about that when you went into Love
A: So here, and this is a little geeky, yeah, it's a geeky thing. So, all right, you can have a line, and you can measure the length of the line. All right, whatever. Okay, that's the only thing you can measure about it. There's no area, there's no volume, it's just a length, all right? Now I can add another line at like, right angles to it, and when I do that, I can actually trace out a square. Okay? So now a square has more than just a length. It has area. There's area inside the square. An area is defined by both both axes. You need both to get an area. Okay, all right, let's add a third axis, xy, now, z now, you don't have a one. You don't have a square. What do you have? You have a cube. Now, I'm a mushroom. You have a cube. That's full each of these, right? So now, okay, right? So not much. No, I can take that to higher dimensions, but I won't always stick to three. Okay, if you go to four and five dimensions, let's stick to three. So now you ask yourself, What do you care about in a relationship? Okay? Want the person to look hot. Nothing wrong with that. Make a note of that. Okay? You want the person to be good and bad, okay, just fine. Be honest with yourself, that's another by the way, you can be hot and not good in bed or vice versa. Okay. So, so these are separate coordinates. Okay, okay, so All right, now, what? Let's get a third one. You want the person to be kind? Let's say kind. You want evil. No, okay, now so each of these is completely separate from the other. You can be beautiful and evil. You can be ugly and kind. You can be but you care about those three, right? So now rate this person from zero to 10 in those three categories. Just go ahead and do that. So you say person's really kind, and the greater bet only give a five. Okay, it looks the great bet, and they're kind, right? Here's what you do. You don't get the volume of a cube. You multiply x by the area of a square is x times y, the area of the volume of a cube is you multiply all three, I'm telling you to take those three numbers, multiply them together, you will get the volume of your love, the volume of what you care about. So now, watch now, here's my point. What you need to do is because presumably you're, if you're in the field, the different people out there, get each person's volume and go after the person that has the largest volume, because they might be higher in one than the other. But if you really care about them, it's the total, the totality of that package, that matters...
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