Arthur Ashkin: What does love feel like?

What does love feel like?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Arthur Ashkin said elsewhere, not written here

I was very shy, but I knew that this lady was special,…So I had enough nerve to ask for her phone number.

Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗

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Jonnie Peacock British athlete

Wanting to share everything.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2018 source ↗

Emma Barnett British broadcaster and journalist

Very hard, meaningful kisses.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2021 source ↗

Niamh Cusack Irish actress

A longed-for, familiar shore at sunset.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

Comforting, solid, unconditional, a drug.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

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I didn’t realise I’m the oldest ever! So I just about made it, huh? Because you can’t be dead and win … If you’re a winner of the National Inventors Hall of Fame you can be dead. I won that prize a couple of years ago and I was very proud of that. That is the most, I would say, most important prize I’ve won.

Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, The Nobel Prize, 2 October 2018 source ↗

Question What important truth do very few people agree with you on? Values & belief

This light is shining on you. Do you know that it's pushing you?…Most people don't. But it is, because it's got energy. The only thing is, it's so small you don't feel it.