It's not a matter of semantics, it's a matter of drawing a distinction between 2 emotions that are often confused with each other. Call it whatever you want, but what OP calls love is clearly not what a regular person would consider to be love. This distinction, which has been made by several other people in this thread as well, is important because people will and often do justify being a creep as that they're "in love." See how already so much of OP's argument hinges on the idea that he is in love? To be clear, he is very explicit that he is not just attracted to her - he is very clear that he believes he feels what a regular person would consider to be love.

Granted, in hindsight and given his responses so far, it seems unlikely that drawing this distinction would make a meaningful practical difference. But I fail to see how addressing one of the core parts of OP's arguments can be considered as meaningless argument over semantics

Sewing/designing clothes really clicked for me. Haven't tried woodworking, but I imagine it scratches the same itch and utilizes similar skills: 90% of sewing is just planning, calculation, and measuring. Then, watch everything just fit together into place

Not top brass, but I've been in/am in mentorship roles. Not leadership in the strictest sense of the word, but I might as well pitch in. I think a big factor in what makes or breaks a good mentor/mentee relationship is acknowledging that your mentees have different goals than you. You may want a project to finish on time, but not everyone does. You need to cater to your mentees to make sure they're getting what they want out of the relationship - you're kind of working for them just as much as they're working for you. It's a lot of work to be a mentor

Whatever you say, brother. We're only here to provide advice. And so far, everyone's advice seems to be on the same page. It's your decision whether to take it.

I will however point out that, in fact, the modern consensus is that Romeo and Juliet were not in love and that it was, at best, a hormone-driven highschool crush that lasted less than a week

This person's advice is comprehensive and correct. You need to accept it. What you're feeling is not love. Love is something that is built up over years of being in a relationship. No relationship, no love. If what you're feeling is as strong as you claim, then the correct word would be infatuation, or possibly obsession.

You're going to come off as extremely creepy to her. Let it go.

My understanding (not a historian, don't quote me on this) is that one of the big explanations for the collapse was particularly bad famine that affected the entire region. It led rural people to migrate into relatively-more-prosperous cities, often by boat (hence "sea people"), but this migration led to increased strain on city infrastructure, especially since the cities were facing the famine as well.

I'm confused now. Do you genuinely think dogs are a natural species? Because... that might explain a lot about this entire post

Ea-nasir promised that these were good quality copper, and I do not have any reason to suspect otherwise. But I'll have you know, if the copper is of inferior quality, I will make sure to send my messenger to complain. He will not hear the end of it!

Good question. I had to modify my code to run more efficiently, since not throttling implies that the copper block reaches a steady state with very little temperature changes over time.

But, with the changes, I can say that there is no copper block length that would prevent throttling with a 120 W CPU. It seems the heat transfer within the block is slow enough over such long lengths that you get diminishing returns with longer and longer copper blocks. Here's a graph I made summarizing the different block lengths that I tested

With a 65 W CPU, a 32 cm (double the original length) copper block is sufficient to prevent throttling, but it'll reach steady state at 97 C

Was intrigued, so made a simulation to figure it out.

TLDR: 592.2 seconds, or 9 minutes and 52.2 seconds. Very similar to the other comment - it appears temperature differentials and heat loss to the air have opposite effects on thermal throttle time and mostly cancel themselves out. For the most part, heat transfer and heat loss appear to affect the thermal throttle time less than the sheer heat mass of the block by several multiples

Assumptions:

• Copper's heat conductivity is 400 W/m-K, and specific heat is 0.4 J/g-K, and density is 9000 kg/m^3, and these values do not change over the range of temperatures
• Air's heat transfer coefficient is 20 W/m^2-K and does not change over the range of temperatures
• The surrounding air does not change in temperature and remains at room temperature (25 C)
• The input wattage is actually 120 W and not just random marketing bullshit
• The copper block's size is 4 cm x 4 cm x 16 cm (same as other comment)
• The temperature within the copper block differs only by the vertical axis; it is assumed that temperature does not change if you move horizontally into the block

Modeling conditions:

• The block is sliced into 100 equally-sized slices, stacked vertically.
• Each slice starts off with a temperature of 25 C
• 120 W is input directly into the bottom slice
• Heat transfer is modeled between each slice
• Heat loss into the air is modeled for each slice (top slice has more heat loss due to more contact with the air)
• Temperature changes are calculated per millisecond
• Final time is calculated by the total number of milliseconds it takes for the bottom slice to reach a temperature greater than 100 C

Fun facts I found from playing around with the model:

• According to this model, at the time that the CPU thermal throttles, the top of the block should be 85 C
• If we assume instantaneous heat transfer, time to thermal throttle goes up to 703 seconds (11 minutes and 43 seconds). Difference is about 2 minutes.
• If we assume no heat loss to the air, time to thermal throttle goes down to 500.0 seconds (8 minutes and 20 seconds). Difference is about 1.5 minutes.
• The copper block should be able to prevent throttling as long as the CPU remains idle (30W for AMD CPU's). The CPU should cap out at around 82-83 C.
• The copper block can prevent thermal throttling for a 170 W CPU for 368.1 seconds, or 6 minutes and 8.1 seconds

You're confusing 2 different but related concepts. Blueshift and redshift does depends only on velocity. In the cosmological sense, redshift (the opposite of blueshift) occurs because everything is moving away from everything else due to the expansion of the universe, and so the distance of an object can be calculated based on how much redshift there is in the light. Basically, on a cosmological scale, distance and velocity are connected

Hmm, I think at minimum calculus will need to be involved here. Because we can't just assume that the heat is spread evenly in the copper - it'll likely be hotter at the bottom, leading to thermal throttling earlier than expected. On the other hand, there's going to be heat dissipation into the air, which will help cool the block somewhat

Edit: made a program to model heat transfer and heat loss. It seems to only affect final time by a handful of seconds. So actual time in real life is probably somewhere in the ballpark of 10 minutes