The next day, Sheldon attempts to collaborate with Howard in engineering. It this how you usually work? With hunches and guesses and stuff"? Leonard finally has enough, telling Sheldon to "GO AWAY!". Sheldon knocks Leonard's scientific method: "Pretty sure is not very scientific. Leonard tells him that he's pretty sure it would blow up. Sheldon looks at Leonard's design and asks about a laser array in the schematic, questioning why he's using helium lasers instead of argon lasers. Leonard is currently designing an experiment to study the soft component of cosmic radiation at sea level. He asks Leonard to clarify exactly what he does he's listened to Leonard talk about his work, but he never really paid attention. Later that night, Sheldon has decided that with his own line of research blown up by Dennis, he will instead collaborate with Leonard. Penny questions whether they have to WAIT for him to die, or if they get to shoot him between the eyes. Sheldon determines that the rational thing is to give up fruitless efforts in his own field and point his efforts in a new direction dedicating himself to scientific research and waiting to die. Sheldon always knew that some day someone smarter would come along but he always assumed that he would have been dead for hundreds of years and that the new smarter someone would have an asterisk beside their name because they were a cyborg. Sheldon doubts this because "In Texas when a cow goes dry, they don't keep feeding it, they just take her out back and shoot her between the eyes". Leonard encourages Sheldon to eat something, then he'll feel better. When Howard chimes in with Salieri's name, Sheldon is despondent, noting "Oh God, now even you're smarter than me". Sheldon adds that he has gone from "being Stevenson Mozart, to being.that other guy". "You WERE the youngest winner", Dennis corrects him, strutting out of the office.īack at the apartment, Sheldon is fuming about Dennis Kim's presence, upset that at fifteen years old, Dennis is correcting Sheldon's work. Sheldon takes great pride in announcing that he is the youngest person to win the award at "fourteen and a half".
On their way out, Dennis sees Sheldon's Stevenson Award. Sheldon takes exception, then orders Leonard to get Dennis out of his office. He questions if Sheldon has considered a field theory approach. Sheldon muses "I sense a disturbance in the force." ala Star Wars.Īs Sheldon and Leonard show Dennis around, we see Sheldon's office for the first time. On seeing Sheldon's whiteboards, Dennis comments negatively on Sheldon's work in quantum loop corrections. Kim starts explaining to Sheldon about false vacuums, but gets distracted by chocolate milk in the vending machine. Kim is dismissive of Sheldon's work in string theory calling it a dead end. Eric Gablehauser introduces Dennis Kim, a new 15-year-old child prodigy and wants the boys to make him feel welcome. He simply can't allow the original Sheldon to be destroyed. Sheldon is adamantly against being disintegrated even if he is exactly recreated. It annoys the guys so much that they try to distract Dennis in order to get Sheldon back to normal.Īt work, Sheldon and Leonard discuss problems of teleportation. Sheldon decides to give up his own work and focus on other tasks. Dennis Kim, a child prodigy, is looking around the university and seems to have outstripped Sheldon's achievements in every way.