WHEN Sydney physicist Brendan McMonigal got down on one knee to propose to his partner of seven years, Christie Nelan, he pulled out a physics paper, not a ring.
His paper, Two Body Interactions: A Longitudinal Study, (link below), is laden with science geek speak and tracks the couple's relationship, including a graph (''happiness over time'') and the all important question.
Fellow physics major Ms Nelan - who said yes - published a link to a digital copy of the proposal on social news site Reddit this week and it went viral, viewed over 1.7 million times with tens of thousands of Facebook shares and dozens of news articles.
''I guess we won the internet,'' said Ms Nelan.
The article: With this physics paper I thee...
The paper: Two Body Interactions
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