→ gaudi:推 Hello, Hello Kitty 這部真的很好笑 比起HIMYM的山羊怪梗 05/03 17:58
→ gaudi:好太多了 HIMYM真的要加油啦 廳說布蘭妮確定要回來演了 05/03 17:59
→ cyz123:真的!!! 配合入戲我真的是笑翻天XDDD 05/03 18:57
推 gaudi:啦啦 對 配合快轉那邊真的要笑死了 05/03 19:02
→ gfsog:這集真的太好笑了XD 05/03 22:56
推 Topanga:我看到配合快轉那邊也快笑翻了 XDD 超級歡樂的一集啊！ 05/03 23:08
推 ACEP:最新一期的Nature Physics有提到這齣影集XD 05/04 00:14
推 colleger:雖然是幻想 不過penny親下去了啊!! 另外 推Venn Diagram 05/04 00:51
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作者: outlook2 (容) 看板: EAseries
標題: Re: [心得] Big Bang Theory 114
時間: Sun May 18 00:37:11 2008
說真的...看完上一集後
以為這票人老死不相往來
沒想到這回居然玩得那麼開心
※ 引述《DREW (曖曖內含光)》之銘言：
: 這集很好笑啊啊啊!
: 千萬不要錯過。XD
: 我的前三名：
: 1.NERDvana
: 2.Hello, Hello Kitty.
: 3.Sheldon's double dream
: 當四人幫第一次在玩Time machine，
: Leonard把指針調到未來2300多年，
^^^^
是802701年
某人在結尾的兩段式結局真是一絶
我還以為會是其他人把頭套拿下
結果不是...
: 然後其他三個人配合著入戲的樣子，
: 我真覺得大家都是好柄you呀。
: 感謝這齣戲表現出宅男的榮光～ lol
除Sheldon外
其他3位或多或少都已經確認有熱戀跟推倒的經驗了
等著看Sheldon陷入熱戀是啥樣 XD
推 ACEP:最新一期的Nature Physics有提到這齣影集XD05/04 00:14
有點好奇...想伸內容...
推 colleger:雖然是幻想 不過penny親下去了啊!! 另外 推Venn Diagram05/04 00:51
這集某人真帥
直接使出超級英雄式的超帥氣迫降法
可惜只是夢...
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推 ACEP:最近有點忙，翻到一半，但前幾天發現Science也有提到這齣 05/18 10:55
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作者: ACEP (蝴蝶結) 看板: EAseries
標題: Re: [心得] Big Bang Theory 114
時間: Sun May 18 12:28:25 2008
※ 引述《outlook2 (容)》之銘言：
: 說真的...看完上一集後
: 以為這票人老死不相往來
: 沒想到這回居然玩得那麼開心
: ※ 引述《DREW (曖曖內含光)》之銘言：
: : 這集很好笑啊啊啊!
: : 千萬不要錯過。XD
: : 我的前三名：
: : 1.NERDvana
: : 2.Hello, Hello Kitty.
: : 3.Sheldon's double dream
: : 當四人幫第一次在玩Time machine，
: : Leonard把指針調到未來2300多年，
: ^^^^
: 是802701年
: 某人在結尾的兩段式結局真是一絶
: 我還以為會是其他人把頭套拿下
: 結果不是...
: : 然後其他三個人配合著入戲的樣子，
: : 我真覺得大家都是好柄you呀。
: : 感謝這齣戲表現出宅男的榮光～ lol
: 除Sheldon外
: 其他3位或多或少都已經確認有熱戀跟推倒的經驗了
: 等著看Sheldon陷入熱戀是啥樣 XD
: 推 ACEP:最新一期的Nature Physics有提到這齣影集XD 05/04 00:14
: 有點好奇...想伸內容...
: 推 colleger:雖然是幻想 不過penny親下去了啊!! 另外 推Venn Diagram 05/04 00:51
: 這集某人真帥
: 直接使出超級英雄式的超帥氣迫降法
: 可惜只是夢...
Editorial
Nature Physics 4, 337 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys945
Media star
Physics is a hit on the small screen, in US comedy The Big Bang Theory, and
takes a leading role in this month's World Science Fair.
物理學現在在電視影集中當紅而且將在這個月的世界科學大會中扮演重要的角色，例如美國
影集"The Big Bang Theory"。
The Big Bang Theory has reached European shores. A CBS comedy that began playing
in the United States last year, The Big Bang Theory centres on room-mates
Leonard and Sheldon, and Leonard's attraction to the pretty girl who moves into
the apartment across the hall. So far, so uninspired. But Leonard and Sheldon
are no ordinary room-mates: they're physicists.
The Big Bang Theory 這部戲在歐洲已可見到。這齣戲去年開始在美國演出，主題圍繞在有
著室友關係的 Leonard 和 Sheldon，以及 Leonard 被剛搬到同層樓對面的漂亮女孩身上。
影集本身到目前為止沒啥吸引人之處。但 Leonard 和 Sheldon 並不是一般的室友：他們是
物理學家。
Yes, the two lead characters in a primetime comedy are post-doc physicists. This
is a whole new experience.
是的，這兩位熱門時間的喜劇主角是在做博士後研究的物理學家。這是個全新的經驗。
In times past, it seemed that if a writer wished to suggest a frightening level
of intelligence, a certain social ineptness or remoteness, or, moving down the
scale, a sense of amorality or even pure evil, the (usually minor) character
would be introduced as a physicist — often, reflecting other concerns of the
day, a nuclear physicist.
在以前，如果一個作家想要表達一種令人畏懼的聰明，某種與拙於社交或與社會疏離的感覺
，或，更糟點，不道德或甚至邪惡，那麼那個角色（通常是小角色）會是位物理學家–為反
應出當時的時空背景，這角色常常是核物理學家。
Sheldon and Leonard retain something of the caricature (although it's moved with
the fashion of the times from nuclear physics to string theory). As characters
for entertainment, of course they're exaggerated stereotypes. They're clever and
nerdy and hopeless with the opposite sex, in exactly the ways that any non-
physicist would expect a physicist to be. But they're funny too. They have lives
and experiences, and yearn (at least Leonard does) for what's beyond their
experience. These physicists are people. Although a stereotype never matches any
real individual, it is always based on an element of truth. Sheldon and Leonard
— well, they're a little bit me, a little bit you.
Sheldon 和 Leonard 的角色保有一些這類的諷刺成分（儘管隨著時空的演變，劇中物理學
家的物理學專長已從核物理轉變到弦論）。身為喜劇主角，他們的行為想當然爾地被誇大來
娛樂觀眾。他們聰明、討人厭、且無可救藥地與異性無緣，這正是任何非物理學家認為物理
學家所應具備的特色。但他們也是有趣的。他們擁有生活和經驗，且渴望（至少 Leonard是
）來點超乎他們日常生活外的體驗。這些物理學家也是人。儘管這種對物理學家的刻畫在現
實生活中找不到對應，但總是基於某種事實。Sheldon 和 Leonard — 嗯，其實有點像我，
也有點像你。
The real star of The Big Bang Theory is the physics. Sheldon and Leonard
convince because their dialogue and hence their characters are properly rounded
with accurate physics. No Star Trek-style antimatter nonsense here. Instead,
there are witty barbs about derivatives and the many dimensions of string theory
Sheldon attends a fancy-dress party, costumed in a suit of irregularly spaced
stripes, as 'the Doppler effect' — he offers the obvious sound effect as a clue
to his disguise. Best of all are the flipcharts and whiteboards that adorn the
set of the apartment and the university offices (these are, supposedly, Caltech
physicists): each is exquisitely scrawled in multi-colour marker pen with
equations and diagrams, all real physics.
這部影集的真正主角是物理。Sheldon 和 Leonard 之所以演起來如此傳神是因為他們的對
話，也就是他們的角色，是適切地以正確的物理來包裝。劇裡沒有 Star Trek 式的物理如
"反物質"類的胡謅。相反地他們的對話有著對微分與弦論中多維空間的風趣批評。例如有一
次 Sheldon 參加一個化妝舞會，他穿了一件有著不規則間距的條紋裝來體現都普勒效應，
他用相當明顯的聲音效果作為他身上那件衣服的提示。最棒的是那些裝飾著他們住處與大學
辦公室的掛圖和白板（這應該是加州理工學院的物理學家）：在那上面都用許多種顏色的筆
優雅中帶些潦草地寫下方程式和圖，那些都是真正的物理。
Leonard: At least I didn't have to invent 26 dimensions to get the math to work.
Sheldon: I didn't invent them. They're there.
Leonard: Yeah? In what universe?
Sheldon: In all of them, that's the point!
Leonard: 至少我不必為了使其在數學上成立而發明 26 維。
Sheldon: 我沒有發明它。他們本來就存在著。
Leonard: 是嗎？ 存在那個空間？
Sheldon: 所有的空間，這才是重點。
未完待續......
Science 9 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5877, pp. 740 - 741
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5877.740
這是在 Science 上的另一篇
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你給我一種感覺 奇特的感覺 一時之間我遺失了語言
除非是『三月不揭的春帷』才讓我留下足以釀酒的眼淚
你笑的一廂情願 絕版的明信片 恍惚置我於諸神的紀元
誰不在等待他的貝德麗采 清秀的佳人在日落盡處重現
如果你柔情的雙眼懸掛在天邊 我願是容納你筆直光線的深邃
即使在世紀末以前極短的時間 我也要散盡所有力氣雄雄為你搏一回
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※ 編輯: ACEP 來自: 140.109.55.237 (05/18 12:32)
推 kilasophi:推翻譯 那個都普勒效應真的很好笑~ 05/18 16:30
※ 編輯: ACEP 來自: 140.109.55.237 (05/18 17:51)
推 bbhands:我超愛化妝舞會那集的 XD The Flash!! 05/18 18:20
推 chaosguard: 05/18 21:34
推 outlook2:這篇推薦版大M起來啊~ 05/18 22:56
推 eve28x:認真!值得M! 05/18 23:48
推 wwa:推!! 05/18 23:53
→ ACEP:我自己覺得沒有翻得很好,請有文學造詣的版友潤飾一下 05/19 00:17
→ ACEP:最近忙,y還沒翻完 05/19 00:18
推 stlinman:推！ 05/22 21:07
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作者: alamos (陪哭) 看板: EAseries
標題: Re: [心得] Big Bang Theory 114
時間: Wed May 21 11:17:15 2008
※ 引述《ACEP (蝴蝶結)》之銘言：
: Nature Physics 4, 337 (2008)
: doi:10.1038/nphys945
: Media star
: Physics is a hit on the small screen, in US comedy The Big Bang Theory, and
: takes a leading role in this month's World Science Fair.
: 物理學現在在電視影集中當紅而且將在這個月的世界科學大會中扮演重要的角色，例如美國
: 影集"The Big Bang Theory"。
: The Big Bang Theory has reached European shores. A CBS comedy that began playing
: in the United States last year, The Big Bang Theory centres on room-mates
: Leonard and Sheldon, and Leonard's attraction to the pretty girl who moves into
: the apartment across the hall. So far, so uninspired. But Leonard and Sheldon
: are no ordinary room-mates: they're physicists.
: The Big Bang Theory 這部戲在歐洲已可見到。這齣戲去年開始在美國演出，主題圍繞在有
: 著室友關係的 Leonard 和 Sheldon，以及 Leonard 被剛搬到同層樓對面的漂亮女孩身上。
: 影集本身到目前為止沒啥吸引人之處。但 Leonard 和 Sheldon 並不是一般的室友：他們是
: 物理學家。
: Yes, the two lead characters in a primetime comedy are post-doc physicists. This
: is a whole new experience.
: 是的，這兩位熱門時間的喜劇主角是在做博士後研究的物理學家。這是個全新的經驗。
: In times past, it seemed that if a writer wished to suggest a frightening level
: of intelligence, a certain social ineptness or remoteness, or, moving down the
: scale, a sense of amorality or even pure evil, the (usually minor) character
: would be introduced as a physicist — often, reflecting other concerns of the
: day, a nuclear physicist.
: 在以前，如果一個作家想要表達一種令人畏懼的聰明，某種與拙於社交或與社會疏離的感覺
: ，或，更糟點，不道德或甚至邪惡，那麼那個角色（通常是小角色）會是位物理學家–為反
: 應出當時的時空背景，這角色常常是核物理學家。
: Sheldon and Leonard retain something of the caricature (although it's moved with
: the fashion of the times from nuclear physics to string theory). As characters
: for entertainment, of course they're exaggerated stereotypes. They're clever and
: nerdy and hopeless with the opposite sex, in exactly the ways that any non-
: physicist would expect a physicist to be. But they're funny too. They have lives
: and experiences, and yearn (at least Leonard does) for what's beyond their
: experience. These physicists are people. Although a stereotype never matches any
: real individual, it is always based on an element of truth. Sheldon and Leonard
: — well, they're a little bit me, a little bit you.
: Sheldon 和 Leonard 的角色保有一些這類的諷刺成分（儘管隨著時空的演變，劇中物理學
: 家的物理學專長已從核物理轉變到弦論）。身為喜劇主角，他們的行為想當然爾地被誇大來
: 娛樂觀眾。他們聰明、討人厭、且無可救藥地與異性無緣，這正是任何非物理學家認為物理
: 學家所應具備的特色。但他們也是有趣的。他們擁有生活和經驗，且渴望（至少 Leonard是
: ）來點超乎他們日常生活外的體驗。這些物理學家也是人。儘管這種對物理學家的刻畫在現
: 實生活中找不到對應，但總是基於某種事實。Sheldon 和 Leonard — 嗯，其實有點像我，
: 也有點像你。
: The real star of The Big Bang Theory is the physics. Sheldon and Leonard
: convince because their dialogue and hence their characters are properly rounded
: with accurate physics. No Star Trek-style antimatter nonsense here. Instead,
: there are witty barbs about derivatives and the many dimensions of string theory
: Sheldon attends a fancy-dress party, costumed in a suit of irregularly spaced
: stripes, as 'the Doppler effect' — he offers the obvious sound effect as a clue
: to his disguise. Best of all are the flipcharts and whiteboards that adorn the
: set of the apartment and the university offices (these are, supposedly, Caltech
: physicists): each is exquisitely scrawled in multi-colour marker pen with
: equations and diagrams, all real physics.
: 這部影集的真正主角是物理。Sheldon 和 Leonard 之所以演起來如此傳神是因為他們的對
: 話，也就是他們的角色，是適切地以正確的物理來包裝。劇裡沒有 Star Trek 式的物理如
: "反物質"類的胡謅。相反地他們的對話有著對微分與弦論中多維空間的風趣批評。例如有一
: 次 Sheldon 參加一個化妝舞會，他穿了一件有著不規則間距的條紋裝來體現都普勒效應，
: 他用相當明顯的聲音效果作為他身上那件衣服的提示。最棒的是那些裝飾著他們住處與大學
: 辦公室的掛圖和白板（這應該是加州理工學院的物理學家）：在那上面都用許多種顏色的筆
: 優雅中帶些潦草地寫下方程式和圖，那些都是真正的物理。
: Leonard: At least I didn't have to invent 26 dimensions to get the math to work.
: Sheldon: I didn't invent them. They're there.
: Leonard: Yeah? In what universe?
: Sheldon: In all of them, that's the point!
: Leonard: 至少我不必為了使其在數學上成立而發明 26 維。
: Sheldon: 我沒有發明它。他們本來就存在著。
: Leonard: 是嗎？ 存在那個空間？
: Sheldon: 所有的空間，這才是重點。
It's a delight, and a credit to the CBS producers and their science
consultant, UCLA physicist David Saltzberg. In one episode, Sheldon has been
playing with quantum chromodynamics on his living-room flipchart. He is
furious to discover that someone has tampered with his derivation, arriving
instead at a negative beta function rather than the positive one he had
achieved. The culprit, it turns out, is Leonard's colleague and erstwhile
love interest, Leslie, who shrugs and points out that she's made it correct:
in QCD, unless the beta function is negative you don't get asymptotic freedom
of quarks.
Seriously, that's the punchline. It's performed with such skill that it
really is funny. It matters to these characters, it becomes a human concern.
Admittedly, The Big Bang Theory may not qualify as a comedy classic in the
long term with the widest audience, but it strikes a blow for physics in
mainstream culture.
Such is also the intention ? not only for physics but for science as a whole
? of Columbia physicist Brian Greene, co-founder of the World Science
Festival, which kicks off in New York on 28 May. On the festival website
(http://www.worldsciencefestival.com), Greene says, "The World Science
Festival aims to spark a movement in which science shifts from the cultural
outskirts to the cultural centre." Over five days, an impressive line-up ?
including Nobel winners, actors Alan Alda and Michael York, curators of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, philosophers and dancers ? will present, discuss
and perform science.
Science deserves celebration, but most of all it deserves recognition. It
should be no more unusual for film or television characters to be physicists
than to be police, lawyers, doctors or anything else. It's always the human
story that matters, and that entertains. Science is full of human stories.
Sheldon and Leonard may be physics geeks, but they'd be nice guys to have
across the hall.
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作者: alamos (陪哭) 看板: EAseries
標題: Re: [心得] Big Bang Theory 114
時間: Wed May 21 11:17:54 2008
※ 引述《ACEP (蝴蝶結)》之銘言：
: Science 9 May 2008:
: Vol. 320. no. 5877, pp. 740 - 741
: DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5877.740
: 這是在 Science 上的另一篇
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Talk Nerdy to Me
Karen Heyman*
A surprise hit, the new TV comedy The Big Bang Theory plumbs science for
laughs, thanks to aid from physicist David Saltzberg and friends
Figure 1 Weird science. Real physics and math make cameos on The Big Bang
Theory.
CREDIT: WARNER BROS. TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT
Leonard: "At least I didn't have to invent 26 dimensions to make the math
work."
Sheldon: "I didn't invent them. They're there."
Leonard: "In what universe?!"
Sheldon: "All of them. That's the point."
Physicists may be notorious for coming up with weird concepts such as
alternative universes. But a popular situation comedy based on their work
seems almost as fanciful. Yet last October, the American TV network CBS
premiered The Big Bang Theory, and about 9 million people now watch it each
week--enough for CBS to quickly renew the show for another year. The
Washington Post's critic Tom Shales calls it "the funniest new sitcom of the
season." Apparently, it isn't just quarks that can be strange and charming.
Online Extra
See video clips from The Big Bang Theory (YouTube).
Centering on two male physics postdocs and the blonde bombshell who moves in
next door, The Big Bang Theory follows the sitcom formula of placing quirky,
exaggerated characters in situations both odd and mundane. But where the show
breaks the mold is that most of those characters and situations revolve
around science, highly accurate science for the most part, thanks to
experimental particle physicist David Saltzberg of the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who's been with the show from the initial
episode. From making sure lab equipment looks suitably haphazard to supplying
the equations displayed on the show, Saltzberg's presence is regularly felt
on the set; he even has a director's chair with his name on it. "I can't
overestimate his value to what we do," says Bill Prady, who along with Chuck
Lorre created the show.
Hollywood has a tradition of exploiting geek humor, from Jerry Lewis's The
Nutty Professor to the Revenge of the Nerds. Many current TV shows,
particularly forensic crime dramas such as CSI, draw regularly on math and
science, both for plot elements and the occasional laugh. Numb3rs, in which a
mathematician helps his FBI agent brother, is even used as the basis for
teacher's worksheets provided by Texas Instruments and the National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics. Given all of that, working on film or television
can be a perk for a Los Angeles-area scientist or physician. Kevin Grazier of
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, for example, consults for three
shows.
Still, The Big Bang Theory is the first time a prime-time comedy has taken
science this seriously--and Saltzberg is surely the only particle physicist
to advise a sitcom. Science recently spoke with him and Prady, and paid a
visit to the set of The Big Bang Theory, to learn how cutting-edge research
gets injected into the show.
Figure 2 Odd couple. Physicist David Saltzberg (left) and Bill Prady, The
Big Bang Theory's co-creator.
CREDIT: WARNER BROS. TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT
The pair defended the show against charges that it has too few women
scientists and mocks physicists as Klingon-speaking nerds. Whether giving a
talk about the sitcom at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics or
simply attending a party, Saltzberg inevitably encounters people offended by
the show's putative sexism and nerdism. Most of the show's detractors, he
notes, have never seen a whole episode. Prady stresses that The Big Bang
Theory means no ill will. "If the scientific community is concerned with how
we depict them, be gentle and be patient," he says. "We are you; we love you."
Sheldon: "This is one of those circumstances people unfamiliar with the law
of large numbers would call a coincidence."
Saltzberg got his unusual gig via a friend, a Hawaiian astrophysicist who'd
helped on the show's unaired pilot. When the show was picked up by CBS, the
producers went searching for a local to vet last-minute changes. Saltzberg
generally looks over the scripts in advance and then drives in once a week to
Burbank for the show's evening tapings. Saltzberg is "right there to give us
the new word we need," Prady says. "A couple of weeks ago, he provided us
with a terrific, genuine joke, and it was on the air."
The sitcom features Leonard and Sheldon, the two physicists, and Penny, an
actress/waitress who is their bridge to the world of people who don't have a
periodic table shower curtain. She's a loyal friend, even attending Leonard's
talk on supersolidity--at which she falls asleep. Leonard's subject matter
was suggested by the show's "geek of the week," in this case graduate student
Matt Mecklenburg, who'd accompanied Saltzberg to the set, as colleagues,
friends, and students do every week.
One can argue about whether The Big Bang Theory is funny--TV critic Maureen
Ryan of the Chicago Tribune called its jokes "tired and mean-spirited"--but
it's clear that Prady and his writers have scientific chops, accurately
incorporating physics terms such as "soft component of cosmic radiation" into
dialogue even before Saltzberg sees a script. Several years ago, one writer
dressed up for a Halloween party as the Doppler effect. The show incorporated
the idea, putting Sheldon in a bodysuit with white vertical stripes separated
by less and less distance. He made accompanying train noises whose pitch went
up and down. To his dismay, no guest got it.
Prady, a self-taught software programmer, initially envisioned programmers at
the heart of a sitcom. But sitting at a computer all day doesn't make for
great physical comedy. Physicists, however, write on whiteboards, and that
visual element had appeal: "We realized this was a better way to show
somebody working with their mind," Prady says.
Leonard: "Sounds like a breakthrough, should I ask Science to hold the cover?"
Sheldon: "It's time travel, Leonard. I will have already done that."
Some episodes of The Big Bang Theory could inspire an evening of studying
math or physics. Saltzberg likes to inject scripts with terms such as Casimir
effect, molecular positronium, and giant magnetoresistance (the subject of
the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics). "I go for stuff that sounds really
fake--that you think is Hollywood science but find out not only is it real,
it's topical," he says.
Saltzberg views the show as a tool for science education: PBS's NOVA with rim
shots. During an awkward date, Leonard gets an olive to rotate inside a
glass--and corrects Penny, and likely most viewers, that centripetal, not
centrifugal, force explains the trick.
Leonard, played by Johnny Galecki, is the experimentalist who longs for Penny
and has a disastrous fling with Leslie, a brilliant labmate, who spends part
of their tryst correcting an equation. In the episode in which Leonard first
asks Leslie for a date--"a biosocial exploration with a neurochemical
overlay," he calls it--the two test how long it takes a powerful lab laser to
heat up soup.
Leslie is the only female researcher on the show, a complaint Prady and
Saltzberg hear often from women, whether scientists or journalists. Prady
promises that more female scientists will appear. "The [female-male] ratio is
actually higher on the show than it is in my part of the field, which is
pretty bad," Saltzberg unhappily adds.
The show's writers saw that firsthand when they toured UCLA labs. Prady met a
physicist who lies about what she does in social situations, because she
feels her career intimidates men. "We're going to have Leslie do that," Prady
says. "Whenever anybody says they lie about who they are, there's a rich
story to tell there."
The show's other lead character is string theorist Sheldon, played by Jim
Parsons as an arrogant, emotionally oblivious, yet endearing, former child
prodigy. When Penny complains that a bad relationship lasted 4 years, "as
long as high school," Sheldon, perplexed, replies, "It took you 4 years to
get through high school?" He's even less tactful to non-Ph.D. engineers,
calling them "Oompa-Loompas of science," a knowing jab at the academic
pecking order.
Sheldon's lack of social graces and other quirks have led to speculation that
he must have Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder commonly assumed
to be prevalent in scientists and computer programmers. Although Prady
concedes that Sheldon fits the diagnosis, he rejects the idea that this is
the ultimate in negative geek stereotypes, saying the character is an
affectionate composite of the programmers he used to know.
Figure 3 In character. Jim Parsons (Sheldon) as the Doppler Effect,
Johnny Galecki (Leonard) as Frodo, Kunal Nayyar (Raj) as Thor, and Simon
Helberg (Howard) as Robin Hood.
CREDITS: ICHIRO/GETTY IMAGES; WARNER BROS. TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT
Saltzberg also doesn't believe the show paints a depressing picture of
scientists. "I am willing to discuss it with anyone who has seen a couple of
episodes," he says, noting that a UCLA physics student who recently visited
the set remarked that she wanted to be just like the show's characters. "This
is our attempt to show our own lives," Prady says. "My father-in-law is a
brilliant pediatric rheumatologist, but he is capable of saying, 'That's a
very interesting story, but who is this Tom Cruise?'"
Sheldon: "That's my work. It's just some quantum mechanics. A little string
theory doodling around the edges. That part there--that's just a joke. It's a
spoof of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation."
UCLA hasn't objected to Saltzberg's spending his free time consulting for the
show--he gets an on-air credit and fee--but Warner Bros.' lawyers have
stopped on-air disclosure of Sheldon and Leonard's academic home. Still, a
slip during the pilot, and its Pasadena setting, obviously hint at Caltech,
whose walkways and fountains grace Numb3rs's "CalSci."
Science is vital to the show but not at the expense of humor, Saltzberg must
always remind himself. At a rehearsal, he catches that an equation he
provided with accompanying Feynman diagram appears scarily complicated but is
actually too basic to cause physics postdocs the terror the scene requires.
The writers gamely try out new dialogue, but nothing clicks. They finally ask
Saltzberg to provide a new, more challenging equation, with the same solution
as the old one so no dialogue has to be changed. Mercifully, before Saltzberg
has to improvise, everyone realizes that all it takes is modifying the
characters' reactions: It's an engineer who's most frightened.
Although Saltzberg always winces when he realizes he's let something wrong
slip in, he's also amused that even his most accurate contributions come off
as fake. "If I look on the [Internet] message boards, there's still
complaints--no matter how right you get the science, there's going to be some
fraction of people who think it's wrong!"
Saltzberg has found scientific allies for his defense of the show--and a few
fans of his own. "Our outreach department really enjoys watching the show;
the science adviser is very good," says Rebecca Thompson-Flagg, public
outreach specialist for the American Physical Society. (The society plans to
send the show material with its logo for use.) Science writer Jennifer
Ouellette recently penned an op-ed in Symmetry, a magazine for particle
physicists, calling on its readers to embrace the show. (David Harris, the
physicist who is editor of the magazine, loves the show.) "I bought a T-shirt
at the American Physical Society that said, 'Flirt harder, I'm a physicist,'
" Saltzberg says. "I don't know why we should hold television up to a
different standard than we hold ourselves."
Karen Heyman is a freelance writer in Santa Monica, California.
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