03-17-2015, 07:49 AM
The one thing that caught my interest in episode 8.18 was Sheldon's comment about the interviewer of the Scientific American article. According to him, the interviewer had been following Sheldon's career for several years and the only reason why the author decided to write the article was because Sheldon was associated with the project. So it wasn't the idea in and of itself that opened the door but Sheldon's reputation. That made me curious as to the state of Sheldon's reputation as it seems to fluctuate on the show.
So to keep track of things:
Sheldon's the second youngest winner of the Stevenson's Award who had his work invalidated by a North Korean Wunderkind.
Earned a science grant to the Arctic only to be made a fool in front of the university.
Brought in enough grant money for his projects to pay Raj and Alex and was the foremost authority on loop quantum calculations at the university and yet gets his parking spot taken away by an astronaut payload specialist.
Solved the black hole information paradox and yet can't do basic math in a paper given to Hawking.
Is smart enough to nearly singlehandedly defeat a team of geniuses at a physics bowl and yet can't figure out a revolving door.
Can be enough of a scientific authority to warrant a an appearance on a renowned radio science show only to be thoroughly humiliated on a national scale without repercussions at the university for Kripke.
Cares so much about his scientific integrity that he didn't want to have his name associated with a discovery he found by error only to have the discovery overturned by Leonard just as Sheldon comes to terms with his newfound fame.
Is shown after being an authority on string theory for several years that he was premature in dropping it because even a neurobiologist can make advancements he could not in the field.
There are other examples I'm sure but these are what came to mind.
Oh. One more thing about tonight's episode that got me.
Sheldon insisted that he had important ideas. Now did he talk about his breakthrough in wave-particle duality or his reconciliation of string network condensates with the black hole information paradox or his loop quantum calculations or his proven by Leonard theory about supersolids? No. Instead he talked of building a reverse Seaworld where the dolphins watch the humans to which Amy made the clarification that, unlike Sheldon's ideas, Leonard's idea was good.
But then again, it's not like with Sheldon we were talking about one of the most brilliant minds of his generation or anything....
So to keep track of things:
Sheldon's the second youngest winner of the Stevenson's Award who had his work invalidated by a North Korean Wunderkind.
Earned a science grant to the Arctic only to be made a fool in front of the university.
Brought in enough grant money for his projects to pay Raj and Alex and was the foremost authority on loop quantum calculations at the university and yet gets his parking spot taken away by an astronaut payload specialist.
Solved the black hole information paradox and yet can't do basic math in a paper given to Hawking.
Is smart enough to nearly singlehandedly defeat a team of geniuses at a physics bowl and yet can't figure out a revolving door.
Can be enough of a scientific authority to warrant a an appearance on a renowned radio science show only to be thoroughly humiliated on a national scale without repercussions at the university for Kripke.
Cares so much about his scientific integrity that he didn't want to have his name associated with a discovery he found by error only to have the discovery overturned by Leonard just as Sheldon comes to terms with his newfound fame.
Is shown after being an authority on string theory for several years that he was premature in dropping it because even a neurobiologist can make advancements he could not in the field.
There are other examples I'm sure but these are what came to mind.
Oh. One more thing about tonight's episode that got me.
Sheldon insisted that he had important ideas. Now did he talk about his breakthrough in wave-particle duality or his reconciliation of string network condensates with the black hole information paradox or his loop quantum calculations or his proven by Leonard theory about supersolids? No. Instead he talked of building a reverse Seaworld where the dolphins watch the humans to which Amy made the clarification that, unlike Sheldon's ideas, Leonard's idea was good.
But then again, it's not like with Sheldon we were talking about one of the most brilliant minds of his generation or anything....
Let's go exploring!