Science finds genetic link to origin of love

Is there a reason we fall in love with certain people? Does science have anything to do with love? One UConn student proposed a possible answer to these questions with an explanation he calls the "love theory."

Grzegorz Rdzak, a 6th-semester chemistry major from Poland, said he began forming his "love theory" after trips to several different dance clubs. Rdzak said he noticed that all the girls he was attracted to danced in the same ways.

"There were girls who stood out to me," Rdzak said. "Even though they had totally different appearances, there was a specific type of movement."

After realizing this, Rdzak said he began seeking out and dancing with girls he found attractive to see if they all danced similarly, although he is quick to add that he was not a "player."

"After the first girl, it was purely scientific," he said.

From here, Rdzak said he started to think that everything we do is determined by genetics, and so it would make sense that attraction too would have its basis in science.

"Our genes direct everything, the way we talk, move, act or behave," Rdzak said. "This could prove that we are attracted to someone by our unique set of genes."

According to Rdzak, at the atomic level each human being radiates his or her own unique energy in the form of DNA.

"If we radiate the unique energy, it is also possible that we are sensitive to unique energy as well," he said.

According to Rdzak, this might explain why we are attracted to certain people. It might also account for the so-called "love at first sight."

According to Rdzak's theory, a person's taste for another person would depend on their genetic match for each other. This match, Rdzak said, does not necessarily mean genetic similarities, their DNA sequences and, more specifically, Rdzak refers to introns, must simply fit.

Although some scientists think introns are "nonsense" DNA, merely placeholders for the genes that do code for DNA, Rdzak disagrees.