Still single? Blame it on the Love Formula!
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Neville Parker |
Chances of meeting your perfect partner are just one in 285,000
Formulae are generally the stuff which science and mathematics, so to speak, are made of, not something to associate with romantic notions. But if an university tutor in England is to be believed, maths formulae are also the stuff which can calculate one’s chances of finding the right mate.
And going by what Peter Backus has discovered while burning the midnight oil amid the whiff of leather-bound books, page-turning sounds and whirring of the old clock in his oak-panelled surroundings, will make those living in singledom sit up and shed copious tears! His Love Formula, loosely translated, means that the chances for those on the lookout for their perfect partners are just one in 285,000, according to a report in London’s Daily Mail. Mind-boggling one might say, but Backus, who spent three years without a partner (one doesn’t really know whether he has had a lucky strike since), has gone to great lengths to get the figure right and publish his book Why I Don’t Have A Girlfriend?
The study is based taking into account the number of single women in the age group of 24 - 34 living in London. Backus told the Daily Mail: “There are 26 women in London with whom I might have a wonderful relationship. So, on a given night out in London there is a 0.0000034 per cent chance of meeting one of these special people. That’s a one in 285,000 chance, so it’s not great.”
Well, whatever the learned tutor from the University of Warwick, may have found or not found his theses is sure to take the romance out of life’s most serious search and also spur single netizens, who drive Internet’s powerful search engines looking for Mr or Miss Right, into doubling their incessant and nervous clatter on the keyboards.
Cyber love-bugs be warned: you are up against awesome odds of the Love Formula which took Backus, who remained single for three years just to get into the spirit of the thing, a great deal of research and patience to ponder the singles’ situation at length.
The maths genius’ long road to formulating his theses makes use of The Drake Equation, a formula which was used to make an estimation of extra-terrestrial life in our galaxy, the Milky Way. And the equation reads thus: N = R* x Fp x Ne x Fi x Fc x L. Whatever that may mean! Using this formula Drake had estimated that there were 10,000 civilisations in our galaxy.
Broadly speaking, Backus deduced that out of 30 million women in the UK only 26 would be suitable girl-friends for him. Depressing figures indeed.
Wonder what the numbers will be if his theory is applied to more populous countries. But there lies a bit of consolation though amid the gathering clouds of gloom—- it’s not the fault of single people being the way they are. It all boils down to the Love Formula!
Oman Tribune |
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