| While the value of watching a "rubbish" comedy (or TV for that matter) certainly is debatable, the content of the show, or at least the accuracy of the physics jokes, are spot on. They are pretty rigorous in their joke fact checking : http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-big-bang-theory-has-hidden-j... >A lot of the humor is over the heads of the general audience. >But there are jokes inside of jokes, and for those who >recognize the science, they’re hilarious. The show takes this >stuff so seriously that it employs a UCLA physics professor >to make sure it gets it right. >Case in point: In a 2009 episode, “The Jiminy Conjecture,” >Sheldon and Howard heard a chirp and then argued over which >variety of cricket made the sound. >On the whiteboard in the background is Dolbear’s law, which >states the relationship between the air temperature and the >rate at which crickets chirp. >“I went to a Dolbear presentation at Tufts, and they talked >about this, in like 1989,” says one high-profile fan of the >show, Seamus Blackley, one of the creators of Microsoft’s >original Xbox game console. “I remembered it!” >“Once I realized what was going on, it was awesome,” added >Mr. Blackley, who is also trained in physics. “It’s the No. 1 >show, and it has actual physics in it.” I'm just not sure there's ever been a show that's attempted to deliver comedy around Schrodinger's Cat or Quantum Uncertainty. They do a phenomenal job with comedy surrounding such technical subjects, but just by acknowledging my fondness for the show, puts me in a minority here. |