Young Sheldon: Why Sheldon Chose A Career In Theoretical Physics (Season 1 Episode 6 Clip) | TBS

[@박승현-n7e]

So he basically took that career to prove he was right basically. Damn dedication of my man Sheldon.

[@seorok]

i gotta give sheldon cooper for that, tbh.

[@rimhamdan7259]

Jesus is not God, he never said this in the Bible.

[@OHCAM5]

The irony is that it was experimental physicists that proved his theory and got him the Nobel Prize.

[@therealnav214]

Bigger irony is that that those experimental physicists did not even know a single thing about his theory and they did it as an accident.

[@vanerwin504]

That's their job LOL.

[@OHCAM5]

@@vanerwin504 yeah but Sheldon looked down on them and if it wasn't for them he doesn't win the Nobel.

[@marshian__mallow2624]

@@OHCAM5 he could’ve carried out the experiment himself

[@OHCAM5]

@@marshian__mallow2624 Not really. He doesn't do experiments at all. He is all theories.

[@mila9162]

This does accurately depict how people treat gifted children though

[@Proccito]

This is how they treat all children though. He was the same to Georgie really, only that Georgie asked an (lets be fair) unrelated question, he still got the "Stupid kids wasting my time"-reaction.

[@ethansocrates4252]

yeah, honestly yeah a lot of gifted students don't live up to their potential cause of these people tbh i think i used to be a gifted kid but probably not anymore

[@fadlya.rahman4113]

@@ethansocrates4252 All kids are born geniuses. The society then proceed to "averaged" them.

[@ethansocrates4252]

@@fadlya.rahman4113 yeah, kinda true

[@Grothgerek]

Isn't it the other way around? Gifted children met to many people that have way too high expectation and ruin their life?

[@shrutimahant]

So Sheldon's entire career path was based on a grudge?!

[@cityhawk]

Look at how much he holds a grudge for not winning a bookmark in Sunday School even though he won the Noble Prize.

[@shrutimahant]

@@cityhawk Good point.

[@jish55]

He held a grudge against Will Wheaton for years all because of a misunderstanding.

[@dylanking9738]

I get it. I’m a finance major because I was picked on by rich assholes in middle school. It made me want money. More than their parents.

[@manikdhar9378]

Yes Shruti mahant and why do I see you seducing mankind?don't you know it is a sin/crime?

[@sumaiya3385]

1:37 he was genuinely asking respectfully and the reaction

[@LtPowers]

A real NASA scientist would have said "You know, that would save a lot of money over time. And we've got some folks at NASA looking into ways to make it work. But it's not practical just yet, since the boosters would basically have to land themselves without a human pilot."

[@MrTrollo2]

something along that line, I agree

[@villiehaizlip7626]

Elon is that you!

[@Valkeezy]

That’s oddly specific, got any of that Space dust sir?

[@Apophis40K]

Wouldn't landing a rocket be more expensive then letting it controllable crash into the ocean since you would need fuel to land which you would also lift up first so you would need even more fuel and an even bigger rocket. Compare this to a cheap parachute and some cleaning work after. The only real advantage landing would give would be more use time out of the rocket since you don't have to clean and check it every time after use.

[@MrTrollo2]

​@@Apophis40K yes and the second advantage are ecology and ressources that you spare. Both way more irrelevant aspects at the time the scene is playing. The landing technology is not really a technological breakthrough, the circumstances just changed while progress was made and stuff got economical.

[@macmcleod1188]

I am really surprised the teacher didn't take this opportunity to set up his old NASA buddy for embarrassment.

[@elmo8832]

Ikr

[@MrTrollo2]

True, seems like bad writing tbh

[@Twisted_Code]

@@MrTrollo2 A missed opportunity does not automatically mean bad writing, does it? mediocre might be a better word

[@Twisted_Code]

definitely could've asked him "what's the square root of " or stuff to that effect

[@gonegirl3954]

I just thought he didn’t know any better so just went “😬” when Sheldon said he’d help the NASA guy with the math of it

[@akshaymundkur]

It was somewhat rude of that NASA director to shut Sheldon up with a patch. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was, in part, the reason why Sheldon hated engineering, and also why he did not get along with Howard.

[@akshaymundkur]

@Christopher Bingham What you said is the primary reason, and I agree. However. I am sure you would agree that there can be more than ONE reason.

[@NguyenReactions]

@Christopher Bingham well yes he turned out to be the main reason, the professor was not far worse. This guy tried to shut up Sheldon. The professor tried to get Sheldon to figure out his own mistake instead of spoon feeding it to Sheldon

[@axley444]

@Christopher Bingham I agree

[@peestrem31]

yeah well he's just a dumb kid

[@Twisted_Code]

hence the title

[@arican1363]

So we’re not gonna talk about how adorable Georgie Used to be 🥺🥺

[@smitadutta7777]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. 🙈

[@ItsME-sk1bp]

Where can I watch this for free

[@DestoDoodles4u]

​@@ItsME-sk1bp soap2day

[@anndownsouth5070]

It's so cute that this was before the actor's voice broke. ❤

[@parwinderkaur]

The way sheldon was looking at teacher in the end🤣😂

[@tedflips1501]

Is this why he hates the career of Howard's.

[@santiagocarreno5881]

No, he hates it, because Sheldon is a disrespectful brat who wasn't taught on how to treat others

[@cjiw2044]

@@santiagocarreno5881 the way you phrase that makes it sound like nobody "tried" to teach him.

[@OptimusWombat]

It's because Howard doesn't have a Ph.D.

[@NguyenReactions]

Nah it’s because of the professor

[@stephenking5852]

We learned why in the most recent episode.

[@davidva8694]

For being so logical, Sheldon sure is emotional.

[@charliequintanilla5240]

I wonder if Howard was able to change his opinion on astronauts?

[@OHCAM5]

He doesn't hate astronauts just engineers

[@pukalo]

They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.

[@parwinderkaur]

The way he was seeing the teacher in end 😂🤣

[@RvThesecond]

"if you want to save money why dont you land the booster rockets instead of dropping it on the ocean" Sheldon is so ahead of his generation😂 Space X and Blue origin are doing that right now.

[@mikekinsella2822]

yep its possiable to do it now

[@ionisator1]

Actually in the show Elon took Sheldon's notes and worked off of them to work on the landing rockets. He literally made a cameo.

[@jasjfl]

I mean I'm sure the idea has been around as long as rockets have been around. The genius is in figuring out how to do it.

[@terroristkonoha9679]

Elon musk made a cameo in that episode too

[@jonathangarzon2798]

Okay let's all remember this shows not real, there is no real Sheldon guys

[@Wuubaboo]

Imagine dedicating your life to something just to prove someone wrong 😂

[@almeme9017]

I see it as a waste of time but nothing would be better than the taste of revenge

[@AdamBokurczyk]

Revenge can be quite the motivator

[@hmn..9235]

@@almeme9017 may I ask how is it a waste of time? If he becomes a theoretical physicists not only he might be able to get a sweet revenge, this is also a great career path! So isn't it a win win?

[@juniorjose06]

That’s how science works 😂

[@LIBEARTED]

True AF 😁

[@saamamerat1061]

I can answer that. Disposable rockets are cheaper than reusable ones. To be as light as possible means the disposable rockets are very thin. So thin they have to be full of fuel to hold their own shape. Like a balloon. Making them thicker and stronger would also require them to carry more fuel to lunch that higher weight.

[@dodecahedron1]

balloon tanks like that are only used by the centaur upper stage and derivatives of the atlas ICBM(except atlas V) because they tend to collapse if the pressure inside the tank drops

[@claudiamanta1943]

Can you not make a container whose inner lining is combustible or whose properties change according to temperatures (internal/ external) and pressure/ altitude? To think of a container as a mere container is daft.

[@wlt316]

When the entire class knew that Sheldon could do math in circles around that dude

[@alicia1636]

Thing is,I relate to Sheldon in lots of areas(both when he was young and older) and i'm going to college for theoretical physics

[@insaneyogurt4993]

Impossible… that is a females name!!

[@insaneyogurt4993]

Blasphemy

[@pockmock11]

@@insaneyogurt4993 yeah and they watch young Sheldon no smart person watches young Sheldon

[@krittikabiswas8500]

@@insaneyogurt4993 Whoa ! Females have brains ?????

[@seaweedbrain2933]

​@@pockmock11 Wrong

[@xannies32]

Because of similar reason, I used to wake up till 3 am to do the physics problem before my physics lecture shows the solution or talks about it in class.

[@Kryptkeeper911]

To be clear they were all over 18. The other guy”ehhh”. That was gold haha

[@JohnDH1977]

And 20-25 years later he was standing in Oslo accepting his Nobel Prize.

[@frankmcgowan3371]

My SIL is Theoretical Physicist. We don’t have much to talk about. Loves science fiction and has built the giant battle cruiser from Star Wars from Lego’s along with many of the other ships. Definitely a nerd just like Leonard.

[@OptimusWombat]

That makes no sense. Figuring out how to land a booster rocket is applied sciences and engineering. It's not something a theoretical physicist would work on.

[@johnsoapmactavish9921]

You realize you have to start initial designs/plans with physics right? You also realize he’s not a theoretical physicist yet in this show? Sheldon is even told that “we don’t have the budget or technology to make this happen yet” meaning Sheldon just applied assumptions when planning out his design for the booster rocket. You have no idea how initial design works kid, sit down

[@OptimusWombat]

@@johnsoapmactavish9921 wow, someone got triggered pretty bad. You sound like the kid, not me. Maybe try some Xanax.

[@OptimusWombat]

@@johnsoapmactavish9921 BTW, did you notice that the title of the video literally says: "Why Sheldon Chose A Career In Theoretical Physics"?

[@ellenchavez2043]

....which requires math theory in developing the prototypes...

[@megamind522]

But you still need a theory to test how would the booster rocket land, right?

[@PeterMaphalla]

Who is watching this after Elon Musk Used Mechazilla Arms to Catch the Starship Booster🤔😂💯💯

[@Nolangrayson_1000]

god bless america

[@Iamrightyouarewrong]

What does this have to do with Theoretical Physics? He was thinking about Astronomical Physics, Nuclear and Quantum is where Theoretical is used in the field. Not Rocketry.

[@MrBestInTheWorld27]

Uh?

[@MrBestInTheWorld27]

@@Channel_Math_and_Physics ohhh thanks

[@Iamrightyouarewrong]

@@Channel_Math_and_Physics but not rocketry. Howard was the engineer.

[@Iamrightyouarewrong]

@@Channel_Math_and_Physics also why does he hate geology? When it's the basis of chemistry which is the basis for all mathematics and ALL physics?

[@Triplebrc]

@@Iamrightyouarewrong He just looks down on it because to him these people are just digging in the dirt and holding it under a microscope while he tries to answer the fundamental questions of the universe.

[@AzetheReal]

This clip giving me childhood flashbacks. Adults never let you give your best attempt because of their pride. It’s a damn shame.

[@pizzamafioso9191]

Reminds me of why Barney from HIMYM wanted to be a rich ladysman

[@sinctova]

He chose theoretical physics because he wanted to be a scientist who kicked the militarys ass!!!

[@ayyybob]

"One was busy studying while the other was chasing high school girls"💀💀💀

[@knowledgegathererdraftsave1979]

0:38 - 0:52 If all those girls Mr Givens was chasing were over 18, then they wouldn’t be in high school anymore unless they got held back or failed a year and had to restart.

[@mikekinsella2822]

they were College room mates so freshman yr they were 18 more then likely chasing other 18 yr olds.

[@mohammedqurashi42]

I have a hunch that depiction of future especially the sci-fi stuff shown years ago in movies and then that ultimately gets realized in reality later is a clandestine meeting between the Hollywood producers and scientists with their nascent ideas. Then Hollywood glamourising them on silver screen that which ultimately acts as a surprisingly catalyst for scientist and engineers to give everything and had a go at it and prove it works.

[@raymondadamtey3780]

Yep how are you feeling

[@RakeshBalakrishnan]

Sheldon came up idea for spacex

[@MrMonkey2150]

‘Football player right?’ 😂😂😂😂😂

[@danh638]

ah yes Sheldon's primary drive, spite.

[@isaac12348]

Scientist: maths is complicated Sheldon: perhaps I can help you with it Me: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

[@santiagocarreno5881]

Love and Revenge, the only 2 reasons for which people pursuit their dreams

[@carolannpacificadam1944]

Lol. One of the best episodes!!!!!

[@wesleyewert1023]

so it's definitely not at all impossible to land the boosters right? like even if you can't do the whole space x thing where you boost them back down you could just attach parachutes to stop them being completely destroyed when they land. though I guess when they were doing most of their tests they hadn't quite figured out parachutes either.

[@hopejaworski9097]

According to another comment, it’s much cheaper to make them disposable rather than reusable. Making them thick enough that they don’t crumple on landing makes them heavier, so you’d have to make them even bigger to carry enough fuel to handle their own weight. I haven’t done the math, but I wouldn’t be surprised if disposable boosters are a tenth the price in materials and fuel.

[@artistjoh]

The boosters were being built so thinly that they could not withstand a parachute landing without major damage. Getting to the Moon was at the edge of what was possible, and every kjilogram saved in booster weight mean more weight that could get into Lunar transfer trajectory. Engineers and scientists at that time would have loved to have reusable spacecraft, but they couldn't build dreams, they had to build what was possible. Booster landings only became possible after computer guidance systems became a lot more capable than was possible back then. In addition to computer power, we have 60 years of experience in how to build rockets than they had back then. It means that rocket technology is a lot more sophisticated than back then, and we can do things now that they simply could not do.

[@Sai4651]

This is the value of having theoretical physicists and experimental physicists You need the theoretical's to come up with ideas that aren't practical in hopes that they could become practical at some point, and you need experimental's to see if the math is able to work in reality

[@rjfrost7090]

Years later that nincompoop's probably kicking himself for chasing away a future nobel prize winner from pursuing a career in engineering.

[@micomiranda9548]

Isn't that Danny? The one from the rival drug company that tried to steal Penny?

[@nicbentulan]

E was in both The Practice & The Big Bang Theory !

[@nicbentulan]

2nd : I didn't have any bad physics teachers, but it was so hard I just went to maths. Lol. I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. - George Pólya

[@Bubu567]

"It's not technically possible" No idiot, it's perfectly technically possible. It wasn't realistically possible with the computational power of the day. \

[@clFer777]

"not technically possible" meaning, not with state of art technology (including computing power).. perfectly answered.. but yeah, we saw you

[@captainandy4670]

1:37 Elon Musk be like: Hold my Beer

[@Iamrightyouarewrong]

AND NASA thought about reusable rockets from the beginning.

[@baconbap]

My niece was gifted but didn't like going to school. They finally got her to go back and on the first day the Honors English teacher said something so obviously ungrammatical that my niece left and never went back. She got her GED instead

[@anzym3]

If he wanted to proof that guy wrong (technically implausible to reuse rocket boosters), shouldn't he have become an engineer?

[@askjeevescosby2928]

Not only did he insult sheldon he also mocked his favorite show 😆

[@stevieroche48]

I love young sledon

[@baconbap]

I used to teach high school. I cringed often at other teachers who tried to be cool and thought kids only cared about sex and bad jokes. They never realized that the kids thought they were foolish.

[@robertmoore6149]

Proving the nincompoop wrong would involve engineering, not theoretical physics. And Sheldon is disdainful to engineers. Sorry writers, missed the target this time.

[@justindeliwe8065]

Not really engineering is just an application of some theoretical stuff including things in theoretical physics because everyone know that engineering is based around existing sciences idiot.

[@robertmoore6149]

@@justindeliwe8065 Guess you didnt watch this clip or are familiar with BBT.

[@justindeliwe8065]

@@robertmoore6149 watching does not equate to your statement since engineering is not the same thing as theoretical physics and also the guy is a theoretical physcist not an engineer

[@justindeliwe8065]

@@robertmoore6149 also you dont need to watch a series to know that its true, you idiot literally for engineering to work it requires for the science of it to exist.

[@robertmoore6149]

@@justindeliwe8065 Thank you for proving my point.

[@Kaizou626]

I can relate to this,

[@lordofduct]

Vertical Landing Rockets started development in the 1950s. One of the early one's showed up in a 007 movie! (yes that one got its contract canned because it was fuel inefficient, but it existed) Yet another program started in 1985 and testing began in 1993. NASA was well aware of it and brought it in and further tested it in 1995. NASA engineers/scientists would have been WELL aware of it in 1989 (when this show takes place?)

[@roythousand13]

Then, Elon Musk created Space X and made vertical landing rockets practical!

[@ClassicStreetIron]

So Sheldon works for Space X?

[@VtrevPoap-zg2nm]

1:34 may be elon musk might have thought the same as this when he was as child

[@change4challenge]

That Astronaut has a resemblance of Howard....wow

[@theautumnmoon]

Makes sense that adult Sheldon is in Hidden Figures.

[@millisagingerich1248]

Sheldon working with Elon

[@mariarahelvarnhagen2729]

Yul Brynner's Father Invented Study Of The Atmospheric Climate

[@venkybabu8140]

Rice wheat you can buy but fruit vegetables leaves always grow them in the backyards.

[@_-_-_L_-_-_]

Wrong again writers. Sheldon said before a bully chased him though the library and hit him over the head with the biggest book he could find

[@doomcool7960]

0:12 00:40 I was thinking almost the same thing

[@FreshlySnipes]

Elon - Hold my beer, I’ll land those booster rockets.

[@stefanfrunza1697]

fav ep

[@reuploadify]

Landing booster rockets isn't even theoretical physics.

[@skullduggery3377]

his expressions rock.

[@xydoit2024]

Sheldon knows he is smart.

[@orihimeinoue7597]

It dosen't matter because they are both bald man now

[@mattdanerd]

I swear that Sheldon took up theoretical physics because a kid slammed a book over Sheldon's head and it turned out to be a theoretical physics book which hooked Sheldon's interest. At least according to the Big Bang Theory.

[@puppetj2o]

0:44 young Sheldon is writing wrong 💀

[@sirich7751]

Man this was funny. Never watched the show just came up in the feed.

[@ryanmathis8286]

I actually had a Sheldon moment watching this clip. Astronaunts do not wear diapers they have special bathrooms.

[@ulrichkalber9039]

actually there are special bathrooms, but in some cases, and always before the special bathrooms were introduced, they did use diapers.

[@alisyed525]

Young sheldon is now known as Elon musk..

[@sawahtb]

Howard's big accomplishment, space potty.

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

Imagine if he went into finance, he could have stopped 2008. But I guess for him it was just not that interesting. I think it's partially because he never got the misconceptions regarding "suddenly trying to enter a world" like he does with the Einstein and the solid food things....If he did maybe he would care about money and he wouldn't have had to live and work where he did which sad, but

[@sleepnow3053]

I swear that man is Nicky, Ricky Dicky and Dawn's dad's actor

[@shellyortiz1977]

Man do i like this show ...

[@alisinc0001]

The NASA guy looks like an older Howard...

[@rustjones6914]

Is that Erwin!!!

[@phunkydroid]

If that's what he wanted to prove, he went into the wrong line of work, it's an engineering problem with no theoretical physics involved.

[@kenesufernandez1281]

❤

[@58customline]

The NASA scientist looks like the guy from FBI files

[@Hurricanelive]

So, he took it personally

[@noahtheguy1828]

Turns out in 2023 we actually can land the boosters back on Earth

[@leooram1959]

Actually the only reason space x can land a rocket is because telemetry, data link, sensors, actuators, and complex software and computers that were not available until a little more than a decade ago. And btw that is an engineering problem, not a science problem. Football player, hu?

[@dwaugh2215]

This guy has no idea who he was messing with.

[@bandz6025]

0:49 wow the teacher like young girls and work in a highschool as a teacher

[@venkybabu8140]

Nowadays cellphones are like computers

[@slithbackle]

That seems more like an engineering problem than a theoretical physics problem.

[@rebbeca_zamfam_edits5637]

Wait the teacher is,dawns dad from nickelodeon

[@Minnesota-Text]

Bro said the N Word.😮

[@sionois8967]

Welp my career path change because my mom said if i choose another i will be beggar. Welp she's not wrong. Luckily i choose the right one.

[@northwesternhood66]

Sheldon - if you want to save money why don't you land the booster rockets instead of letting them drop in the ocean? Elon musk- i want this child in spaceX at any cost.

[@Suhas-OM]

Tesla made it happen and the rest is history

[@CharlesWestbrook1947]

1:56 you sure you can’t land a booster?

[@darania1]

Apparently this scene was directly based on Elon Musks junior high school classroom debate with a pompous NASA engineer...

[@ethanweimer-kopf6907]

Doesn't that guy play the rival to Bernadette and Penny's pharmaceutical company