[s6e3] The Higgs Boson Observation -

In this episode, Sheldon Cooper is inspired by the recent Discovery of the Higgs Boson to review his own childhood journals, hoping he previously documented a Nobel-worthy idea.

: Howard Wolowitz struggles with claustrophobia and anxiety while stationed on the International Space Station. The Scientific Context: The Higgs Boson Observation [S6E3] The Higgs Boson Observation

The real-world event that prompted the episode was the announcement by CERN on July 4, 2012, that they had observed a new particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson. In this episode, Sheldon Cooper is inspired by

: Sheldon hires a graduate student named Alex Jensen to perform the menial task of reviewing his early work. In this episode