t is something that can be twisted, remember "Understand Frodo, I'd only use the Ring for good..." Love is power, power can be corrupted and twisted with the best of intentions.
But her love became hate when he rejected her[the coin.] That's not uncommon, love is an emotion, emotions cannot always be controlled.
This, I think is what we are debating. When love becomes twisted and turns to hate, it's no longer love. Yes, you could define it as a force in the Dresden Files. But when it's destroying it's hate, and when it's creating it's love.
That is the smelting process, which as you know is also a lot more complicated than people think. Most metals do not come out of the ground in their pure form, it is the same with love.
Quite so, I was using a broad term although you're right that I should use the proper word. That's true, normally once extracted the metal has to be refined. Would you say then that love in it's pure form is tainted with hate? So that the original force is something that contains both (and perhaps more), a yin-yang thing? In purely Dresden Files terms of course.
They're not always truly forging real swords though, as far as melting the blades down. They're working with metal already alloyed together. The melting of the metal is for purification.(or adding carbon) They don't usually need to do that.
Very interesting show though. Still flummoxed how they made two different sabers, one would cut through the rope, but bounce off the fish. The other cut clean through the fish, but bounced off the rope 
That's true. It isn't really needed to extract or refine your own materials any more as it's cheaper and easier (in general) to go and buy it yourself. Never saw that show, but I am intrigued to watch it.
Insights on steel making. Not what one would expect here. But fun. Quenching locks in the crystal structure. Annealing releases the stress on the metal. Forging keeps the metal workable. Banging on the work hardens the metal and annealing reverses that. I grew up playing in a auto/truck spring shop where they did all of that and more. I suspect the edge is the answer to the two sabers. Look at the edges of an axe and a Chef's knife.
It's much more interesting than love. Since love is undefinable, Jim can make it mean precisely what he wants it to mean. Lust is a good stand in for Jim. Greeks had a term for that, eros. Michael has a couple, familial love, agape and eros. A physicist would beg to differ with you as to love as a force of creation.
But isn't that part of the fun of these boards? You never know what you will find!
That's pretty much what I understood - my chemistry is a bit rusty these days, but you're explanation seems solid to me. Did you ever work in the shop yourself?
You're correct of course. Jim can make it mean what he wishes - and he has created a world where metaphorical and metaphysical things can be very real, and physical. So love isn't just a concept in the Dresden Files, it's a magical force that is baked into reality. Perhaps part of it's source. The physicists should probably differ with Jim, he wrote that quote.
