Yeah…that fictional grand unification theory from The Big Bang Theory.
Starting at time index 1:12
(2) The Big bang theory - Sheldon and Amy Super Asymmetry eureka moment - YouTube
Are any of the equasions and formulas lipsticked on the mirror legit…or is it all scientific gibberish?
(put in Factual Questions instead of Cafe Society to determine scientific fact)
We never get a clear view of the entire mirror but while I see a couple of things that look like they might be response functions in statistical mechanics, an equation that might be definition of characteristic temperature, what appears to be a Feynman diagram in the lower right corner, and a bunch of random words like “divergence” and “fermions”, it does look like just random equations they got someone to write on the mirror. While I could only stand to listen to the clip twice, the dialogue is even worse and the entire idea of “super asymmetry” is pure technogibberish.
Writing out the formulation for even a very basic interaction for two superstrings would take at up at least a page on one of those giant landscape sketchbook, and in fact in the time before there were computer algebra systems that could handle systems that complex it was a cachet among physics grad students working on M-theory to carry these awkward things around (presumably in imitation of Ed Witten who would reportedly walk around Harvard and later Institute of Advanced Study with such a notebook). You can’t expect a sitcom to shoot for technical accuracy, of course, but the idea that a couple of people would come up with a profoundly unique theory of everything that would fit onto a mirror written in lipstick is obviously absurd (as I’m sure it was intended to be).
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About as absurd as winning a Nobel prize almost immediately after publishing your groundbreaking work.