Measure the Immeasurable
It was a problematic calculation, to be sure. Some might say impossible. But the real headache lay in finding an appropriate unit of measurement. Amperes, Kelvins, parsecs — inadequate alone, but each needed for the answer.
To the books, then. He dredged up old science and new, eventually delving into sources that some might call pseudoscientific.
What of it? The point was to build the device, and he did.
He called up the one who’d first posed him the question, invited her to his lab, and knelt on one knee.
“I love you this much,” he said, and pushed the button.
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A nice, sweet little story for you guys today. A cardiometer, as its name implies is a device used to measure heart activity. There are several devices that fall into this general category, and mostly they use electrical impulses to make their readings. Heart-measuring devices include electrocardiographs (ECGs), cardiac monitors, and Holter monitors, to name a few.
Of course, on a more general level, this story’s about the formidable task of measuring things. Measuring gives us a way to make sense of the world. We measure oceans, and they lose their limitlessness. We measure mountains and depths and the distance between stars. We calculate the speed in which we’re all hurling through space, and estimate the age of our happy green rock.
But how do you measure something like love? I have no idea, but that hasn’t stopped me or anyone else throughout human history from asking that impossible question: “How much do you love me?”
Happy Monday, friends, and while you may never know the measure in which you’re loved, may that love always feel endless.
Oh, I really do enjoy this one! Succinct and sweet!
I love you this much?
If it can be measured – it only means problems.
For me, it would depend on what happens after he pushed the button. 🙂
I like to think God’s answer to that question was to create the universe.