Saturday, October 23, 2010

Physics research rocks on prime time!

A great scene in The Big Bang Theory (Season 3, Episode 4) is where Sheldon and Raj stare at a whiteboard trying to figure out how to detect dark matter. It is done to the tune of The Eye of the Tiger.
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