Thursday, November 11, 2010

A sign of true love

My son and I just watched a great episode of The Big Bang Theory. It is called the Gorilla Experiment and in it Penny decides that she wants to learn some physics so she can talk to Leonard about his experiment testing the Aharonov-Bohm effect with electric fields. She begs Sheldon to teach her leading to this amusing scene.

1 comment:

  1. I vaguely remember the last colloquium speaker mentioning the Aharonov-Bohm effect.

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