if hes a nuclear phyicist then those kind of formulas is something he uses over and over again, at some point you dont even need to do the derivation, you just know the resulting formula by the looks of it.
Its a primitive vertex of an electron muon interaction, it is fairly easy, not at all hard, should have taken them 30 sec to solve that. They showed as if it was some sort of unsolvable question.
@@sarthakbhalerao1045 I suppose it looks difficult to those of us who don't know so they went with it but with your trained eye you see that is not the case. It's a bit disappointing. Maybe the stress made them go blank? I love that you chimed in
Fun fact... I used to reload catalytic reactors in oil refineries. My very first pay check at a business I went to had to be paper while I was waiting for direct deposit. I walked into a gas station that cashed payroll checks. The owner... a native Pakistani... never heard of the company I worked for. He was skeptical of cashing a fake check so he asked me what I did for a living. I told him I was a contract worker at the Flint Hills Resources Refinery reloading the Paraxylene Reactor with pyrophoric catalysts. He got this HUGE smile on his face and began to describe in GREAT detail how the hydrocarbons were split into xylenes and described the sequence in greater detail than I knew. Turns out, in the United States he's a gas station owner. In Pakistan he was a cheif petroleum engineer for a refinery in his home town. His degree didn't translate in the US so he couldn't be an engineer here without going back to school for a new degree. He basically said fuck that since he was still making more money here as a gas station owner than a chief engineer there. Crazy fuckin story.
Yes, it's common for skilled immigrants to end up working something very very different than their original profession. It's a lose lose for society, but sometimes the person ends up making more money.
I believe that was the case for many Soviet immigrants to the US, especially during the Cold War. Many people from the USSR with advanced degrees who were doctors, engineers or professors in Russia ended up working in menial labor because their degree was not recognized in the US during the Cold War. The janitor/physicist here probably had a similar experience.
Superiority complexes almost ALWAYS are coupled with an inferiority complex. Which is why Sheldon beams when he answers a question and he beams, he needs their validation to prove that he is better.
Two Things: 1. Despite Lenoard answering incorrectly, he was closer to the answer than Sheldon. Who had squat. 2. I hope president Seaburg gave the janitor a better position after this. Knowing an answer that Sheldon didn't while putting up with him for an extended period of time was more than his colleagues could handle.
@@furionmax7824 his degree was probably not recognised in the US. I live in Eastern Europe and i just finished a bachelor's in Biology. While my degree is certified in most EU countries, I am almost certain that in the US it is not.
Besides that like others said maybe his degree was not recognized, also it can be that the physicist has some kind of veto because experiments, confidencial agreements with the URSS or maybe he is hidden because a crime (fictional or real in his country).
The russian scientist from the book reference disprove their theory on supersymetry but they realized it on another perspective and it is proven by accident by another scientist
3:08 Why do I get the feeling that Sheldon took the answer home and went over it about 100 times to try and prove the Russian janitor former physicist wrong? How long before he admitted he made a mistake
It was way off I think. First the sign is opposite and the magnitude is like something close to 1/alpha, which would not be close unless alpha is close to 1
Fun fact: In this episode, the scene at the cafeteria after Leonard tells Sheldon that he's off the Physics bowl team, the trio (Raj, Howard and Leonard) tries to look for a fourth member, and Raj suggests the "girl who plays TVs Blossoms" and has a "PhD in Neuroscience", Mayim Bialik, who later plays Amy in Season 3. Edit : This is episode 13 from Season 1
02:08 He was so bored, as if the contest was never over. He looked at the screen for a second and answered instantly. The way he explained it to Sheldon was so funny.
Can we just note Lenord: "8.........Point 4" Janitor: "Minus 8 By Alpha" Lenord was actually close probably why Gablehouser gave him that stare when he said 8.
@@mehanikal5639 never once said they were equal if you actually read my message. Minus 8 Pi Alpha still had 8 in it. So when Leonard said 8 Gablehouser gave him that look cuz it was still on the right track.
@@mehanikal5639 doesn't matter if the answer is 25. As Gablehouser said the janitors answer was correct. So in terms of the answer he was looking for Lenord was on the right track. Idk why you feel the need to argue a 2 months old comment anyway.
I wonder how many people looked up the diagram so they could express their "Disappointnent" that the guys couldn't solve the question. Also, loved how the Soviet Janitor looked at the equation, scoffed at it like it was simple addition, and solved it no problem.
Everything about the character was brilliant, the writers knocked it out of the park with that idea. Giving him so little attention until the very last moment, genius!
@@astirwirble4317 The funny thing is its a Feynman Diagram invented by Richard Feynman an American Physicist who worked on the Manhatten Project in 1948.
@@hanaluong2672 People are aware that this is a TV show. When they ask questions like this, they wonder what the writers thought or want to think up a reasonable explanation for fun. Just fyi. :)
@@Kitteso BTW, there was no Leningrad Politechnika. They probably meant the Polytechnical Institute of Leningrad Named After Kalinin (Ленинградский политехнический институт имени Калинина) or in better translation, Kalinin Polytechnic Institute. The new name is Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. A (female) high-school classmate of mine graduated from there as an electrical engineer. She had been one of the top in my high-school. The university's mascot was a two-headed eagle. No polar bear around. The show writers can do whatever they want to make the audience laugh.
Well if you don't know the USSR does not exist anymore therefore any qualifications one would have earned before its collapse in 1991 would be worthless in another country. Because they earned it in a place that isn't even recognised on the map. Source: my parents were from the Soviet Union.
It would have been more fun if that Soviet scientist asked him to try prove it even after knowing the right answer and Sheldon struggling for hours infront of crowd. Yeah it's dark. 😂
"Sheldon, is proving that you are single-handedly smarter than everyone else so important that you would rather lose by yourself than win as part of a team?" I think that Sheldon realized Leonard's point, but is too proud to admit it and took comfort in denial.
@@naughtyskywalker9292 lol I actually respect his honor...he wanted to win with his initial conditions no matter what and he sticked to it...He is an Alpha
@@savsaga4991 Yes, Sheldon is a debunked quasi-theory on the social structure of wolves which whether it had been true or not would have had no bearing on how humans socially interact with one another.
For those that speak Spanish. Para los que hablan Espanol, cuando Howard dice "Roswell ship" la traduccion esta mal. La traduccion dice barco, pero la palabra correcta es nave (espacial). Porque en Roswell es donde supuestamente se estrello un ovni.
@@rounakanand531 It's not his field of work and I think he knew what the diagram was, just couldn't solve the equation. Just shows he isn't as smart as he thinks.
Both Leslie and Sheldon should be able to solve this as theoretical physicists, it is actually not that hard if you had atleast one lecture on quantum field theory.
Seeing the books that Sheldon read in "Young Sheldon" I'm surprised he didn't figure that out... I know the spin-off is after this scene, but it still makes it a bit inconsistent.
I know a person just like the guy Sheldon .oh boy I had wasted my one year in hostel by getting him as the roommate but yeah still it was nice.He sleeps at 8 where I used to hang out in night he was a nerd too or rather stick on to anime or gaming. But he was a good person ,now I miss hostel sitting in my home just waiting to get back to college .I really wished for holiday's but I think now it sucks ,but yeah I still enjoy
Something I learned about intelligence is it is not the opposite of stupidity. There are plenty of people who have a high IQ, and also have a high level of stupidity. There are also plenty of people who aren’t particularly smart, but are very aware of what they do and do not understand, so they act accordingly. They may not be very smart, but they rarely do anything stupid either.
A feynman diagram of an electron - muon scattering and i am pretty sure it's not an equation, it's a calculation for the cross section (Im a little rusty). Realistically, it can be answered immediately if you know and remember qed.
Looking back, this series had potential. I see Sheldon in this scene being like Pierce Hawthorne. If the writers leaned into Sheldon being a villian, we could have gotten more episodes like this
i wonder if gablehauser's waiting for leonard's complete answer after leonard said 8 was actually a hint, however little a hint it may have been, to the soviet physicist
Is it really possible to solve that equation in about 2 seconds like he did? I know pretty much nothing about the math of physics so I really don't know but I'm going to guess 'no' unless it's a well known equations he was familiar with.
Actually, a lot of physicists can explain this. Very briefly and in simple terms: It describes the scattering (basically collision) of two particles: an electron and a muon (something similar to an electron but with much larger mass). The drawing is called a Feynman diagram and it is a compact way to illustrate this process. You read it from the bottom to the top. An electron and a muon come in (arrows), they collide (wiggly line illustrates the interaction) and move out again but now with a different momentum (like two balls that collide and have a different velocity afterwards). The equation gives the "amplitude" of this process - basically describing how likely it happens. I think I've read somewhere that there are several typos in it but I am no expert. I don't think -8 pi alpha is correct, at least not without more constraints to the problem. Yet, it's actually one of the most simple Feynman diagrams, so it is annoying that the guys claim they haven't seen it. I'm sure every physics student has seen a Feynman diagram at some point.
