More Than Smart Enough on The Big Bang Theory

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00:00 What if I took your class?

00:02 Why would you do that?

00:04 Yeah, why would you do that?

00:05 What's wrong with you?

00:07 Thinking about getting my doctorate?

00:09 He wants to teach?

00:10 Why not?

00:11 Oh, Howard, look, I appreciate the gesture,

00:14 but this is a graduate level physics class.

00:16 I don't think you'd understand a single thing

00:21 I was talking about.

00:22 Ask why not again.

00:25 I've got an answer.

00:27 Sheldon, I'm more than smart enough to take your class.

00:30 No.

00:34 [LAUGHTER]

00:36 Yes.

00:39 How would you determine the ground state of a quantum

00:42 system with no exact solution?

00:44 I would guess a wave function and then vary its parameters

00:47 until I found the lowest energy solution.

00:49 Hmm.

00:52 Do you know how to integrate x squared times e to the minus x

00:55 without looking it up?

00:57 I'd use Feynman's trick, differentiate

00:59 under the integral sign.

01:00 Yeah, OK.

01:01 What is the correct interpretation

01:07 of quantum mechanics?

01:08 Since every interpretation gives exactly the same answer

01:11 to every measurement, they are all equally correct.

01:13 However, I know you believe in the many worlds interpretation,

01:15 so I'll say that.

01:16 Now, do you think I'm smart enough?

01:17 No.

01:22 [LAUGHTER]

01:24 Oh, come on.

01:25 You might have gone to school for a couple more years than me,

01:27 but guess what?

01:28 Engineers are just as smart as physicists.

01:30 Oh, you take that back.

01:31 [LAUGHTER]

01:35 No.

01:36 [LAUGHTER]

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