Tag Archives: The Big Bang Theory

A Brush With a Physicist

Have you ever been told that sound in Star Wars, in its space battles, is just ridiculous? That sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum? Well chances are you’ve just had a brush with a physicist or the physicist adjacent. In … Continue reading

Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Things I Would Have Loved to Know About Physics Before Making It My Major

What with the current glamourizing of physics with Cosmos and The Big Bang Theory (although some might say that sitcom deglamourizes physics), more and more people are probably looking into physics as a career choice. Decades ago I started down … Continue reading

Posted in Humour, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Free Fall Vomit

Space sickness is said to effect 45% of all astronauts in zero gravity. Symptoms can last 3 days and included with the nausea, vomiting can result. Indeed the zero gravity simulation of making a plane fly in parabolas, mimicking weightlessness … Continue reading

Posted in Humour, Science | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Show Swaps

In our sort of tolerant society-kind of, we are met with an odd situation. Eric Stonestreet plays a gay character on Modern Family. He is not gay. Neil Patrick Harris plays Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, a … Continue reading

Posted in Humour, Sports, Stage and Screen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

There Must be a Stash in the Big Bang Theory

I feel a kind of ownership over the Big Bang Theory. After all the show features 3 physicists and an engineer. I have 2 ½ years of university level physics to my name. I’ve even been asked about it. But … Continue reading

Posted in Humour, Science, Stage and Screen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Theme Songs and Age of Shows

Have you ever winced while watching the theme song intro to the Simpsons and thought this goes on forever. Or maybe you haven’t but eventually will. This year I came up with a thought. “You know I can probably make … Continue reading

Posted in Humour, Mathematics, Music, Stage and Screen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments