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Sheldon, Leonard's roommate, is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow CalTech scientists Wolowitz and Koothrappali. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities... including love.Academia is a nice area for sitcom characters to work in. The working hours, while intensive, are all over the place (more so in the humanities than the sciences, but still), so hanging out in your apartment or a coffee shop at random times of day isn’t completely impossible; there’s plenty of opportunities for exciting trips to conferences in exotic locations (and some academics really do bring their partners to these,



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There is a line, however. If your academic character is, for example, a medical researcher, they can’t find a cure for cancer. If they did, your show would transform into science fiction, because we haven’t discovered a cure for cancer, and if we did, everyone would know about it. You would be leaving the real world behind. The same is true of the physics in The Big Bang Theory.

While the consequences of the discovery of a new element might not be as world-changing as a cure for cancer, such a discovery would still represent a pretty huge leap in our knowledge of physics and our understanding of the world we live in. Certainly, something worthy of an oft-mentioned Nobel prize is probably something that would be worth at least a small news item for the general public, and would be an enormous deal for physicists.

What this means is that, ultimately, neither Leonard nor Sheldon can be allowed to make a truly spectacular leap forward in their field. They can write papers and books and go to conferences and perform experiments like other scientists, but they can’t be allowed actually to discover something world-changing; so any time it appears that they have, the re-set button must be pressed.

And so, in this episode, Sheldon’s accidental discovery of a new element from The Romance Resonance must be un-done, and for the second time in seven years, Sheldon is forced to put out a professionally embarrassing retraction because of something Leonard did, though this time Leonard had the best of intentions.