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Previously on
The Big Bang Theory...

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We just published
a few months ago.

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How did you have time
to design an experiment?

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This whole thing is
actually a gigantic accident.

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You weren't even thinking
about super-asymmetry?

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Thinking about it?
[chuckles]

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We don't even understand it.[both laugh]

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Uh, can you believe this?

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Doctors Pemberton and
Campbell have been doing

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a press tour trying to take
credit for super-asymmetry.

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So what? I mean, no one's
gonna give them credit

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for accidentally
discovering something.

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WOLOWITZ:
Yeah, who remembers the guy

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who was trying to find India

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and discovered America instead?

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What was his name again?[chuckles]

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Now stop trying to steal
our Nobel Prize.

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You come up with your own idea.

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Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

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ELLEN [over TV]: Have a seat,
thanks for being here.

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I feel the same way about you.

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This is nice.

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All my friends hanging out,
watching Ellen.

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It's like, what am I gonna do
with my other two wishes?

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It's not nice.
She's having on the scientists

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who are trying to steal
our Nobel Prize.

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Although I will enjoy
watching her expose

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Pemberton and Campbell

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for the coattail-riding
frauds that they are.

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That is Ellen's brand,
gotcha journalism.

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Yeah, you should've
seen her take down

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John Krasinski last week.

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Got him to admit he loved
his wife. It was brutal.

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[shushing]All right, our next guests

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are a couple of physicists--
don't turn the channel.

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They've been doing
some viral videos online

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about what it's like to be in
the running for a Nobel Prize.

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Please welcome
Doctors Greg Pemberton

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and Kevin Campbell.

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[cheering, applause]

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Why does she even want
to have scientists on?

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Uh, silly question. Who
else will give her audience

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causal explanations of
natural phenomena?

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I love you, honey, but think.

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So you guys

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have discovered something
pretty amazing in the universe.

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Obviously, I understand, uh,
high-level physics

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because I'm a comedian, but...[laughter]

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...can you explain it
to the audience?

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Well, I don't know, I'm not
sure we're even smart enough

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to understand it.[laughter]

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Look, look, the audience is
laughing at them. It's starting.

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I hate to say it, Sheldon, but
I think the audience likes them.

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Well, that will all change
when Ellen asks them

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how super-asymmetry explains the
cosmological excess of matter

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over anti-matter
and they panic,

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like Leonard trying
to do a pull-up.

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Hey, what'd I do?

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Not a pull-up.

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People have been
loving your videos,

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especially the-the songs
that you've been posting.

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Oh, thanks.Thank you.

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Uh, this may be pushing
it, but I have to ask.

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Would you mind singing one
of those for us right now?

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Oh, why not?
All right.

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Come on, Ellen, they're right
there. Go for the jugular.

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♪ Let's get physicist,
physicist ♪

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♪ I want to get physicist

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♪ Let's get into physicist

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♪ Let me hear your boson talk

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Come on, Ellen. ♪ Let me hear
your boson talk... ♪

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♪ Our whole universe
was in a hot, dense state ♪

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♪ Then nearly 14 billion years
ago expansion started... Wait! ♪

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♪ The Earth began to cool

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♪ The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools ♪

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♪ We built the Wall ♪ We built the pyramids♪

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♪ Math, Science, History,
unraveling the mystery ♪

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♪ That all started
with a big bang ♪

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♪ Bang!♪

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Dr. Pemberton.

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Dr. Campbell.

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Doctors Pemberton and Campbell.

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Morning, buddy.

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I am not your buddy.

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What's wrong?
I'll tell you
what's wrong.

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You went on TV
and were charming.

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Thanks, man.
That's what my mom said.

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PEMBERTON:
W-Why don't you come in

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and have some parfait?Yeah,

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we ordered it from room service;
it cost, like, 12 bucks.

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It's just yogurt in a glass.

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I don't want your yogurt.

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Then what do you want?

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I want you to hold
a press conference

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where you admit that you blindly
stumbled into super-asymmetry

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and it was really our discovery.

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Oh. No, thanks.

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You know, just because we proved
something by accident

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doesn't mean
we didn't prove it.

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PEMBERTON:
Yeah, I wasn't trying

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to prove that my wife
was cheating on me

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when I came home early
one Friday,

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but I'm still sleeping
on his couch.

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I told you,
you can do better than her.

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Thanks. It just hurts.

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And when you win that
Nobel Prize, she's gonna realize

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that she was wrong,
you are not a fraud.

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She is not wrong.

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Wow, I can't believe
you're siding with Linda.

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Shame on you.

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Look at this. They
posted another video.

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It's not even about science.

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They're on a
celebrity bus tour.

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Those are fun. I-I went on one

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and saw Tom Hanks talking
to his gardener.

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He's even nice when you plant
the wrong color azaleas.

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Those guys are good at
self-promoting, so what?

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No one ever won a Nobel
for being nice.

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KOOTHRAPPALI:
Yeah, but if they did,

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do you know who would win one?

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Are you gonna say Tom Hanks?

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He picked up a shovel
and helped the guy replant.

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SIEBERT:
Dr. Cooper,

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there you are. I just wanted
to tell you not to worry

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about this Pemberton
and Campbell publicity blitz.

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Are you worried?

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Not at all.

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Not even a little bit.
[laughs]

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Look, i-it doesn't matter

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if they have popular support,

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we're gonna get the scientific
community behind us.

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He's right, the Nobel Prize
is about the work,

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and as your fellow scientists,
we support you and Amy.

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That's great, Scooby Gang.

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Now, the university
is gonna host

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a reception for you
and Dr. Fowler

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where we invite as many
academic luminaries as we can,

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uh, give them a chance to meet
you, hear about your work.

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Uh, that's a great idea.Uh, yeah.

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Who needs to be likable
when you have Nobel Laureates

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campaigning for you?

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Oh, yeah-- wait a minute.

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Do you not think we're likable?

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That's what's great about you,

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you never stop asking
the tough questions.

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[door closes]

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Hey. Kids asleep?

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Nope. I've been trying
to get them down for hours.

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Apparently, Halley's afraid
of the dark now

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and I can't turn on
the night-light

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'cause it makes Michael cry.

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Why doesn't he like
the night-light?

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Jot that down, we can ask him

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as soon as he learns to speak.

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We can also find out what's
so damn funny about birds.

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[Halley fusses]

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I'll go talk to her.

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I don't know why she's suddenly
so afraid of everything.

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Honey, remember,
she's my child, too.

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WOLOWITZ [over monitor]:
Hey, sweetie,

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I heard you were afraid
of the dark.

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I know someone else
who was afraid of the dark once.

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Your daddy,
when he was in space.

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[Wolowitz chuckles]

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And just like you,
I was wearing a full diaper.

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Hey, good news.

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They're inviting several Nobel
Laureates to our reception.

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Oh, great, like who?

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Uh... Makoto Kobayashi.

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Da-- ooh.

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What?

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Well, I may have been
less than kind to him

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about his Nobel Prize win.

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Why?

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I was jealous, angry
and new to Twitter.

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It was a dangerous combination.

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Okay, so scratch Kobayashi.

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Uh, George Smoot's on here.

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[hisses, groans]

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We have a history.

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Saul Perlmutter?

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[groans]:
Oh!

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What about Kip Thorne?

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[stammers]
That was a misunderstanding.

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I didn't know
he was right behind me.

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So you've alienated everyone
we need to help us?

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Well, Amy, if I had known
that someday we'd need them,

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I would never
have insulted them.

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Well, that doesn't
make it better.Oh.

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Well, it's also not true.

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[door opens, closes]

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Hey.
Hey.

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Oh, that's cute.

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Did Halley draw that
at preschool?

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I drew it.

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Well, good night.

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It's supposed to be
an astronaut.

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And I'm supposed to be
living on my own at this age,

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but here we are.

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Halley was scared and Howard
told her the sweetest story

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about when he was in space
and I thought I could turn it

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into a book for her and Michael.

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Oh, well, I mean,
I am an artist.

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Uh, i-if you want,
I could do the drawings.

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Really? That'd be amazing.Yeah,

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it'd be fun. And a,

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a nice change of pace
from what I usually draw.

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What do you usually draw?

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Well, good night.

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[device chimes]

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Someone texting you?Uh, no,

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I just met my exercise
goal for the day.

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By doing the dishes?

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Hey, you have your goals,
I have mine.

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Hello.What are you two doing?

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Mm, just finishing a workout.

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What's up?

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Do you have any cookie dough?

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Uh, I think so. Let me see.

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Yeah, we've got, uh, chocolate
chip and oatmeal raisin.

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Oatmeal raisin?

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I know at least two things wrong
with that cookie.

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It's for the Nobel Laureates.

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We need them on our side,
but unfortunately, Sheldon...

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No. "Unfortunately, Sheldon..."
that's all you got to say.

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Well, that's-- so you need
these people's support

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and you're sending
them baked goods?

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Yeah, they're pretty smart.

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Don't you think they're gonna
realize it's just a bribe?

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No, you'd think,
but sometimes brilliant people

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can be painfully oblivious
to social cues.

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Thank you for pointing
that out, Sheldon.

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Anytime.

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"Sheldon Cooper"? Hmm.

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"Sheldon Cooper"?

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[scoffs]
Pass.

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"Sheldon Cooper." Aw.

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Ugh, oatmeal raisin?

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Ugh.

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[phone chimes]

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Oh, it's from Saul Perlmutter.

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[gasps]
He sent me a picture.

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Ooh, let me see.

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Oh, he arranged the cookies
to spell out "thank you."

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Sheldon, that word
isn't "thank."

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[knock on door]Hi. I got you a surprise.

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What-- Oh. [chuckles]
What's the occasion?

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I heard you tell Halley
that story the other night,

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and I thought it was

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so sweet that Stuart and I
turned it into a book.

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The Frightened
Little Astronaut?

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00:10:55,306 --> 00:10:58,701
That looks
just like you.

253
00:10:58,745 --> 00:11:02,574
Look how tiny
and scared you look.

254
00:11:02,618 --> 00:11:04,707
And the best part is,
Stuart showed it

255
00:11:04,751 --> 00:11:06,230
to a publisher
friend of his,

256
00:11:06,274 --> 00:11:07,362
and they're interested in it.

257
00:11:07,405 --> 00:11:10,626
That is so cool.Absolutely not.

258
00:11:12,149 --> 00:11:13,368
Why?

259
00:11:13,411 --> 00:11:15,326
Because I don't want
the whole world to know

260
00:11:15,370 --> 00:11:17,677
I was the frightened
little astronaut!

261
00:11:21,202 --> 00:11:24,466
Maybe you should've called it
The Bitchy Little Astronaut.

262
00:11:28,862 --> 00:11:31,255
You want to tell me
what's going on?

263
00:11:31,299 --> 00:11:33,214
Is my distress
that obvious?

264
00:11:33,257 --> 00:11:35,259
Sheldon, please don't
take this the wrong way,

265
00:11:35,303 --> 00:11:36,826
but when you're quiet
even for a second,

266
00:11:36,870 --> 00:11:38,828
something's wrong.

267
00:11:38,872 --> 00:11:41,048
Well, it's true.

268
00:11:41,091 --> 00:11:43,659
The fact is, I feel
really bad for Amy.

269
00:11:43,703 --> 00:11:44,965
Well, we all do.

270
00:11:45,008 --> 00:11:47,663
But just for fun,
why do you?

271
00:11:47,707 --> 00:11:50,231
Well, she didn't
do anything wrong,

272
00:11:50,274 --> 00:11:53,408
but she's paying
for my mistakes.
Wow.

273
00:11:53,451 --> 00:11:55,018
What?

274
00:11:55,062 --> 00:11:57,760
No-- I'm just
honestly impressed.

275
00:11:57,804 --> 00:12:00,937
When did you start caring
about other people's feelings?

276
00:12:00,981 --> 00:12:03,418
Well, I laughed when Amy
got a shock from

277
00:12:03,461 --> 00:12:06,421
the broken Christmas tree
lights, so it was after that.

278
00:12:08,553 --> 00:12:11,731
So none of them are
coming to the reception?

279
00:12:11,774 --> 00:12:13,384
I don't think so.

280
00:12:13,428 --> 00:12:16,605
Okay, what did he say
that was so insulting?[sighs] Well,

281
00:12:16,648 --> 00:12:18,781
he may have suggested there was

282
00:12:18,825 --> 00:12:22,742
an inelegance to the quadrupole
normalization of Smoot's data.

283
00:12:22,785 --> 00:12:24,787
Damn.

284
00:12:27,921 --> 00:12:30,314
See, sometimes I wish I could
invent a time machine,

285
00:12:30,358 --> 00:12:32,360
so I could go back
and prevent myself

286
00:12:32,403 --> 00:12:33,927
from acting so rashly.

287
00:12:33,970 --> 00:12:37,539
Or moving forward, you could
think before you speak.

288
00:12:37,582 --> 00:12:39,759
I suppose so.

289
00:12:39,802 --> 00:12:43,501
But the time machine thing
is probably more likely.

290
00:12:43,545 --> 00:12:46,635
My problem is that
I don't always know

291
00:12:46,678 --> 00:12:48,593
when I've gone too far.

292
00:12:48,637 --> 00:12:50,900
Well, uh, if you like,
I could try to help you out.

293
00:12:50,944 --> 00:12:54,121
You know, and maybe let you know
if you're crossing a line.

294
00:12:54,164 --> 00:12:57,124
Oh, you mean, like,
with a code word?
Sure.

295
00:12:57,167 --> 00:12:59,735
How's "shut up"?

296
00:13:01,171 --> 00:13:03,217
That's perfect. People
say it to me all the time,

297
00:13:03,260 --> 00:13:04,479
no one will suspect.

298
00:13:08,048 --> 00:13:10,659
Hey, got a minute?Sure. What's up?

299
00:13:10,702 --> 00:13:12,835
Uh, Bernadette said

300
00:13:12,879 --> 00:13:14,445
you weren't crazy
about the book.

301
00:13:14,489 --> 00:13:15,838
No. [chuckles]
It's great.

302
00:13:15,882 --> 00:13:17,448
I just don't want anyone
to ever see it

303
00:13:17,492 --> 00:13:19,276
or read it or know it exists.

304
00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,844
But this could be
really good for me,

305
00:13:21,888 --> 00:13:24,455
you know? Finally get
my artwork published.

306
00:13:24,499 --> 00:13:27,371
And-and come on,
it's a, it's a cute story.

307
00:13:27,415 --> 00:13:28,459
Oh, easy for
you to say.

308
00:13:28,503 --> 00:13:30,505
No one's gonna think
you're a coward.

309
00:13:30,548 --> 00:13:32,681
Are you kidding?
The other day

310
00:13:32,724 --> 00:13:35,597
in the comic book store,
a balloon popped and I threw up.

311
00:13:38,905 --> 00:13:41,472
Can't you just
take my name off it?

312
00:13:41,516 --> 00:13:44,475
No, uh, the only reason
the publisher's interested

313
00:13:44,519 --> 00:13:46,782
is 'cause a real astronaut
wrote it.

314
00:13:46,826 --> 00:13:50,046
Well, look, what if
we made a few changes?

315
00:13:50,090 --> 00:13:51,874
Uh, sure, yes.

316
00:13:51,918 --> 00:13:54,355
What-what do you have in mind?Well, nothing major.

317
00:13:54,398 --> 00:13:55,660
But see here on the
cover, where it says

318
00:13:55,704 --> 00:13:57,706
"frightened little,"
what if, I don't know,

319
00:13:57,749 --> 00:14:00,840
it didn't say that?

320
00:14:00,883 --> 00:14:04,452
So, it would just be The Astronaut?

321
00:14:04,495 --> 00:14:06,758
Yeah, you're right.
That doesn't quite pop.

322
00:14:06,802 --> 00:14:10,327
What about...
The Brave Astronaut?

323
00:14:10,371 --> 00:14:12,764
See, that's got
some zip to it!

324
00:14:13,809 --> 00:14:15,419
Okay.

325
00:14:15,463 --> 00:14:18,074
And here on this page,
where I'm crying.

326
00:14:18,118 --> 00:14:20,729
What if, instead,
I'm... punching a meteor

327
00:14:20,772 --> 00:14:24,254
into the sun with
my bare fists?

328
00:14:24,298 --> 00:14:26,213
So you have superpowers?

329
00:14:26,256 --> 00:14:29,085
I like the way
you're thinking.

330
00:14:31,740 --> 00:14:34,047
Professor Thorne?

331
00:14:34,090 --> 00:14:35,222
Dr. Hofstadter.

332
00:14:35,265 --> 00:14:36,832
Uh, you know
my wife, Penny.

333
00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:38,312
Sure. Hi.PENNY: Hi.

334
00:14:38,355 --> 00:14:41,097
[laughs]Uh, we wanted to talk to you
about Dr. Cooper.

335
00:14:41,141 --> 00:14:42,316
Now, before you say no...

336
00:14:42,359 --> 00:14:43,491
No.

337
00:14:45,493 --> 00:14:46,973
Well, then, after you say no.

338
00:14:47,016 --> 00:14:48,539
No.

339
00:14:48,583 --> 00:14:51,325
Okay, look, Sheldon's
a pain in the ass.

340
00:14:51,368 --> 00:14:52,979
But Dr. Fowler's
really nice.

341
00:14:53,022 --> 00:14:56,286
So if you average
them out-- math...

342
00:14:57,592 --> 00:14:58,941
...you got someone
who's okay.

343
00:14:58,985 --> 00:15:00,160
[stammers] But more

344
00:15:00,203 --> 00:15:02,771
than the person,
the Nobel is about the work.

345
00:15:02,814 --> 00:15:04,294
You should understand that
more than anyone.

346
00:15:04,338 --> 00:15:06,644
Yes, because of your work
on gravitational waves.

347
00:15:06,688 --> 00:15:08,037
You know my work?

348
00:15:08,081 --> 00:15:10,344
I do. But I'm-I'm really
hogging this conversation.

349
00:15:10,387 --> 00:15:12,128
Leonard?
[clears throat]

350
00:15:12,172 --> 00:15:13,564
Just give them a chance.

351
00:15:13,608 --> 00:15:16,350
Uh, science has a history
of difficult people.

352
00:15:16,393 --> 00:15:17,917
Look at, uh,
Newton, who was

353
00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,528
a jerk to Leibniz, and Leibniz,
who was a jerk to everyone.

354
00:15:20,571 --> 00:15:22,617
Yeah, you know, and I
don't need to tell you

355
00:15:22,660 --> 00:15:24,619
that gravitational waves
are disturbances

356
00:15:24,662 --> 00:15:26,403
in the curvature
of space-time.

357
00:15:26,447 --> 00:15:29,624
Or that the-- Hey, you worked
on the movie Interstellar?

358
00:15:35,586 --> 00:15:37,110
So what do you think?

359
00:15:37,153 --> 00:15:38,981
I think if you were in space

360
00:15:39,025 --> 00:15:42,245
without a shirt on, you'd die.

361
00:15:42,289 --> 00:15:43,986
Oh.

362
00:15:44,030 --> 00:15:45,683
No, I am wearing
a shirt.

363
00:15:45,727 --> 00:15:49,470
It's just skintight,
so you can see my pecs.

364
00:15:49,513 --> 00:15:51,689
When did you get pecs?

365
00:15:51,733 --> 00:15:55,650
Yesterday, when I made
Stuart add them.

366
00:15:55,693 --> 00:15:57,695
Howie, what I liked
about the other story

367
00:15:57,739 --> 00:15:59,088
was that it was real.

368
00:15:59,132 --> 00:16:01,699
I mean, nothing in this
actually happened to you.

369
00:16:01,743 --> 00:16:04,137
[chuckles]:
So, it's a children's book.

370
00:16:04,180 --> 00:16:05,834
I mean, cats
don't wear hats.

371
00:16:05,877 --> 00:16:07,662
And if someone gives you
green eggs, it ends

372
00:16:07,705 --> 00:16:10,404
with you on the toilet
trying to make a deal with God.

373
00:16:12,493 --> 00:16:14,582
But the real story was so sweet.

374
00:16:14,625 --> 00:16:16,714
The little astronaut
was afraid,

375
00:16:16,758 --> 00:16:19,065
but he still went to space,
and that's what made him brave.

376
00:16:19,108 --> 00:16:23,243
[scoffs] But in space,
the other astronauts...

377
00:16:23,286 --> 00:16:25,549
made fun of him,
and that's a thing

378
00:16:25,593 --> 00:16:27,682
he doesn't want to relive.

379
00:16:27,725 --> 00:16:29,379
I get that.

380
00:16:31,425 --> 00:16:33,340
I guess it would
just take a really

381
00:16:33,383 --> 00:16:35,516
brave man to put an embarrassing
story like that

382
00:16:35,559 --> 00:16:37,866
out into the world,
just so it might help

383
00:16:37,909 --> 00:16:40,347
some frightened children
not feel so alone.

384
00:16:40,390 --> 00:16:44,220
Wow. That is
quite the guilt trip.

385
00:16:46,527 --> 00:16:49,051
Are you sure you're not Jewish?

386
00:16:52,620 --> 00:16:55,492
I'm just a wife that is
so proud of her husband,

387
00:16:55,536 --> 00:16:56,885
and doesn't think
that he has anything

388
00:16:56,928 --> 00:16:59,061
to be embarrassed about.Oh.

389
00:16:59,105 --> 00:17:01,803
You're sounding
less and less Jewish.

390
00:17:04,327 --> 00:17:06,547
Hey, we just heard that
you're the ones

391
00:17:06,590 --> 00:17:08,418
who convinced
the Nobel Laureates to come.

392
00:17:08,462 --> 00:17:09,419
Thank you.
PENNY:
You are welcome.

393
00:17:09,463 --> 00:17:10,420
You guys deserve this.

394
00:17:10,464 --> 00:17:11,552
Yeah, now get out of here,

395
00:17:11,595 --> 00:17:12,814
go talk to some
smart people.

396
00:17:13,771 --> 00:17:16,774
Wait a minute.Yeah, sorry.
Sometimes I forget

397
00:17:16,818 --> 00:17:19,212
you're smart because
you're so sexy.

398
00:17:19,255 --> 00:17:22,606
I can see that.Yeah.

399
00:17:22,650 --> 00:17:24,130
Dr. Cooper.
Dr. Fowler.

400
00:17:24,173 --> 00:17:26,697
I was just telling Professor
Arnold how you came up with

401
00:17:26,741 --> 00:17:28,482
super-asymmetry
at your wedding.

402
00:17:28,525 --> 00:17:30,658
It's a wonderful story.

403
00:17:30,701 --> 00:17:32,138
Ha, it really is.

404
00:17:32,181 --> 00:17:33,922
I wouldn't say it was the
highlight of the wedding,

405
00:17:33,965 --> 00:17:35,706
because I've been
told not to

406
00:17:35,750 --> 00:17:38,100
for reasons I don't
fully understand.

407
00:17:38,144 --> 00:17:40,537
Uh, but what he does understand
is how the universe works,

408
00:17:40,581 --> 00:17:41,756
and that's
what's important.

409
00:17:41,799 --> 00:17:44,498
Not what comes out
of his mouth. [laughs]

410
00:17:47,805 --> 00:17:48,980
Uh-oh.

411
00:17:49,024 --> 00:17:50,765
I haven't been to a lot of
parties like this,

412
00:17:50,808 --> 00:17:54,812
but what does a physics
rumble look like?

413
00:17:54,856 --> 00:17:56,727
Kind of like
angry chickens.
Hmm.

414
00:17:56,771 --> 00:18:00,688
Or-or-or-or like, uh,
when-when puppets fight.

415
00:18:00,731 --> 00:18:03,734
Dr. Cooper, Dr. Fowler,
good to see you.

416
00:18:03,778 --> 00:18:04,909
What are you doing here?

417
00:18:04,953 --> 00:18:06,476
Professor Smoot
invited us.

418
00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,087
We're Facebook friends.Smooty!

419
00:18:10,785 --> 00:18:13,570
Well, this is our
reception, so go away.

420
00:18:13,614 --> 00:18:14,615
SHELDON:
Actually, Amy,

421
00:18:14,658 --> 00:18:16,312
I think we should
let them stay.

422
00:18:16,356 --> 00:18:17,835
Please, enjoy yourselves.

423
00:18:17,879 --> 00:18:19,750
Try some pigs
in blankets.

424
00:18:19,794 --> 00:18:21,796
And yes, that
is the plural.

425
00:18:21,839 --> 00:18:23,406
Great.Thanks.

426
00:18:24,712 --> 00:18:26,017
What are you doing?

427
00:18:26,061 --> 00:18:27,671
If they stay,
everyone will see

428
00:18:27,715 --> 00:18:28,977
that their grasp
on super-asymmetry

429
00:18:29,020 --> 00:18:30,152
is tenuous at best.

430
00:18:30,196 --> 00:18:32,589
Oh. That's clever.

431
00:18:32,633 --> 00:18:35,026
Yeah, I don't just know
the plurals of things, Amy.

432
00:18:36,419 --> 00:18:37,681
Is this gonna be
a problem?

433
00:18:37,725 --> 00:18:39,944
Mm? No, no, no.
We have a plan.

434
00:18:39,988 --> 00:18:41,555
Uh, Dr. Campbell
and Pemberton,

435
00:18:41,598 --> 00:18:43,861
settle a bet for
Dr. Fowler and me?

436
00:18:43,905 --> 00:18:45,950
We were just discussing,
under what conditions

437
00:18:45,994 --> 00:18:48,127
the radiative corrections
to super-asymmetry

438
00:18:48,170 --> 00:18:50,346
could cause time
variation of alpha E.M.?

439
00:18:50,390 --> 00:18:54,176
AMY:
I say active galactic nuclei
at cosmological distances

440
00:18:54,220 --> 00:18:55,786
show a part per
million deviation.

441
00:18:55,830 --> 00:18:57,310
Dr. Cooper says

442
00:18:57,353 --> 00:19:00,356
this has been disproven recently
with quasar observations.

443
00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:01,618
What do youthink?

444
00:19:06,797 --> 00:19:08,190
I agree with you.

445
00:19:10,801 --> 00:19:11,976
Good answer.

446
00:19:13,326 --> 00:19:14,718
Hey, uh, if we haven't
said it before,

447
00:19:14,762 --> 00:19:17,765
we just want to say...
thank you.

448
00:19:17,808 --> 00:19:20,376
Yeah. We couldn't have proven
super-asymmetry without you.

449
00:19:20,420 --> 00:19:22,117
Wait-wait. You all
heard them say it.

450
00:19:22,161 --> 00:19:23,423
They didn't do anything.

451
00:19:24,641 --> 00:19:27,166
Sheldon. Shut up.Yeah-- Well, that's rude.

452
00:19:27,209 --> 00:19:28,776
No. Shut up.

453
00:19:28,819 --> 00:19:31,779
Oh, the code
word, thank you.

454
00:19:31,822 --> 00:19:33,259
You know, it's strange.
A few months ago,

455
00:19:33,302 --> 00:19:34,738
nobody paid any attention to us,
and now all of a sudden,

456
00:19:34,782 --> 00:19:36,392
we're getting all
these accolades.

457
00:19:36,436 --> 00:19:38,133
Yeah, have-have any
of you ever felt like

458
00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:39,613
maybe you didn't
deserve it?

459
00:19:39,656 --> 00:19:41,223
Leonard, there's
something I need to say.

460
00:19:41,267 --> 00:19:43,747
Shut up.Okay.

461
00:19:43,791 --> 00:19:46,576
It's crazy. We conclusively
proved super-asymmetry,

462
00:19:46,620 --> 00:19:49,579
and yet somehow we,
we still feel like imposters.

463
00:19:49,623 --> 00:19:51,146
There should be
a term for that.

464
00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:53,714
Oh, for crying out loud,
there isa term for that!

465
00:19:53,757 --> 00:19:55,890
It's called
"imposter syndrome"

466
00:19:55,933 --> 00:19:57,500
and you don't have it!

467
00:19:57,544 --> 00:19:59,110
Because you can't have it
if you areimposters,

468
00:19:59,154 --> 00:20:00,286
and you are!

469
00:20:00,329 --> 00:20:02,157
We're the ones

470
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,202
who discovered super-asymmetry!

471
00:20:03,245 --> 00:20:04,333
So if anyone's
gonna feel like

472
00:20:04,377 --> 00:20:05,813
they have
imposter syndrome,

473
00:20:05,856 --> 00:20:09,382
it's us, because we're not
imposters! Theyare!

474
00:20:09,425 --> 00:20:12,211
You're imposters
and you're frauds!

475
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:20,175
Is that what I would've
sounded like?
Yeah.

476
00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:21,959
Yikes!

477
00:20:29,053 --> 00:20:31,795
"Once upon a time,
there was a little astronaut

478
00:20:31,839 --> 00:20:34,842
who was sitting in a rocket
waiting to go to space."

479
00:20:34,885 --> 00:20:36,278
MAN [over radio]:
Three... two... one...

480
00:20:36,322 --> 00:20:38,149
WOLOWITZ: And while all
the other astronauts

481
00:20:38,193 --> 00:20:41,022
laughed and joked,
he stayed quiet,

482
00:20:41,065 --> 00:20:42,545
because he had a secret.

483
00:20:42,589 --> 00:20:46,201
He was scared.
He had another secret, too.

484
00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:49,813
He was only pretending to be scared to trick the alien king.

485
00:20:49,857 --> 00:20:51,772
Ha-ha!

486
00:20:52,860 --> 00:20:53,861
BERNADETTE:
Howie.

487
00:20:54,949 --> 00:20:56,342
Fine.

488
00:20:56,385 --> 00:20:58,692
There was no alien.
[chuckles]

489
00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:03,436
There was a bossy wife, though.
We'll get to her later.

490
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