# Could the Big Bang universe be bigger than we see on screen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229 "2018-05-15T17:42:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229/21 "2018-05-16T16:57:42Z")
Amy has a series of adolescent developmental and also nutrition books she publishes under a pen name (as if Mayim could be a real name?!?) to hide her non scholarly writing from Sheldon—and to keep the others from finding out they are all constantly subjects of her experiments. They could even have an episode where all the characters read the books and identify with a small portion of it (each a different part- because it is actually about them). “I swear this very same thing happened to me! It is like this author followed me around when I was pregnant/changing careers/in space/lonely and feeling unloved/on the verge of losing my business/frustrated by my roommate/always right.” Every time someone mentions how similar the studies are to their real life—Amy can get a fearful, bad poker face and suggest that is why it sells so well, it captured universal truths we can all identify with; which can be followed by a genuine look of relief when they buy it every time. ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229/22 "2018-05-16T16:59:54Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Now that I think about it, one could build a pretty bizarre conspiracy world around [Yeardley Smith](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810379/), too. > > She was the employment agency clerk in “The Einstein Approximation” episode. Also did _Mad Men, Mom, Fresh Off the Boat, Sports Night, City Slickers_, etc. Obviously all part of the same universe.😉 > > There’s something about that voice that suggests … a robot, an alien? Something out of _Herman’s Head_? And there always seems to be jazz saxophone in the background when she is on screen (or am I the only one who hears it?). ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229/23 "2018-05-16T17:01:23Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Cosmologists have been speculating about how much bigger the entire universe is, when compared with the Observable Universe, ever since big bang cosmology was invented. 😉 Gotta love this comment! ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229/24 "2018-05-16T17:08:31Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Her name was mentioned above–it’s Althea Davis, played by Vernee Watson. > > She never worked at the DMV, however. That was [Octavia Spencer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_Spencer). That just means they had another agent on them at one time in addition to the nurse with many names. Or maybe it is the same person under ‘deep’ cover wearing a disguise. (Hey, this conspiracy stuff is easy, you just decide on the conclusion you want and bend the evidence to fit the desired outcome. Works every time.) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229/25 "2018-05-16T19:29:44Z")
I’m still trying to figure out how the bully who picked on Leonard in college turned out to be Sheldon’s dad. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229/26 "2018-05-16T19:38:58Z")
Sheldon spends his spare time harassing people about their laptops.😉 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229/27 "2018-05-16T21:42:43Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m still trying to figure out how the bully who picked on Leonard in college turned out to be Sheldon’s dad. I think Leonard finally got around to building a time machine. He went back in time to get his revenge on Jimmy Speckerman and to alter Sheldon’s childhood so that Sheldon would grow up to be less annoying. Like with all time traveling stories, it didn’t go right and George, Sr. ended up inhabiting the body of Jimmy Speckerman.\* Also something went wrong with Missy and her accent. - Eventually this will turn out to extend George, Sr.'s lifespan. Coincidentally extending the run of _Young Sheldon_ and increasing the profits of all involved. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229/28 "2018-05-16T21:50:45Z")
I’m guessing Howard decided to get into science when he saw how well his [former boss](https://horribleintertextualrepresentations.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/phd-in-horribleness.jpg) had done in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-big-bang-universe-be-bigger-than-we-see-on-screen/814229.md?page=1)