{"id":105000,"date":"2020-04-08T23:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-physicist-explains-what-cbs-show-the-big-bang-theory-gets-right-with-super-asymmetry"},"modified":"2020-04-08T23:50:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:50:52","slug":"a-physicist-explains-what-cbs-show-the-big-bang-theory-gets-right-with-super-asymmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/a-physicist-explains-what-cbs-show-the-big-bang-theory-gets-right-with-super-asymmetry","title":{"rendered":"A physicist explains what CBS show The Big Bang Theory gets right with \u2018super asymmetry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-physicist-explains-what-cbs-show-the-big-bang-theory-gets-right-with-super-asymmetry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/adilson-motter-739001\">Adilson Motter<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/northwestern-university-1259\">Northwestern University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After 12 successful seasons, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/big_bang_theory\/\">The Big Bang Theory<\/a>\u201d has finally come to a fulfilling end, concluding its <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/2019\/03\/28\/big-bang-theory-longest-running-sitcom-276-episodes-cbs\/\">reign as the longest running<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multiple-camera_setup\">multicamera sitcom<\/a> on TV.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re one of the few who haven\u2019t seen the show, this CBS series centers around a group of young scientists defined by essentially every possible stereotype about nerds and geeks. The main character, Sheldon (Jim Parsons), is a theoretical physicist. He is exceptionally intelligent, but also socially unconventional, egocentric, envious and ultra-competitive. His best friend, Leonard (Johnny Galecki), is an experimental physicist who, although more balanced, also shows more fluency with quantum physics than with ordinary social situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adilson Motter, Northwestern University After 12 successful seasons, \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d has finally come to a fulfilling end, concluding its reign as the longest running multicamera sitcom on TV. If you\u2019re one of the few who haven\u2019t seen the show, this CBS series centers around a group of young scientists defined by essentially every [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}