TEXT: Scene: The University cafeteria. Sheldon: Here's the problem with teleportation. Leonard: Lay it on me. Sheldon: Assuming the device could be invented which would identify the quantum state of matter of an individual in one location, and transmit that pattern to a distant location for reassembly, you would not have actually transported the individual. You would have destroyed him in one location, and recreated him in another. Leonard: How about that. Sheldon: Personally, I would never use a transporter. Because the original Sheldon would have to be disintegrated in order to create a new Sheldon. Leonard: Would the new Sheldon be in any way an improvement on the old Sheldon? Sheldon: No, he would be exactly the same. Leonard: That is a problem. Sheldon: So, you see it too. Dr Gablehouser (arriving): Dr Hofstadter, Dr Cooper. Together: Dr Gablehouser. Gablehouser: Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet Dennis Kim. Dennis is a highly sought after Doctorial candidate and we're hoping to have him do his graduate work here. Leonard: Graduate work, very impressive. Gablehouser: And he's only fifteen years old. Sheldon: Not bad, I myself started graduate school at fourteen. Dennis: Well, I lost a year while my family was tunnelling out of North Korea. Leonard: Advantage Kim. Gablehouser: I thought maybe you boys could show Dennis around, let him see why we're the best physics research facility in the country. Dennis: I already know you're not. You don't have an open science grid computer, or a free electron laser, and the string theory research being done here is nothing but a dead end. Sheldon: Excuse me, that is my research, and it is by no means a dead end. Dennis: Well, obviously you don't see it yet, but trust me, you will. Gablehouser: Dennis, we discussed this, we're in the process of updating our equipment, and we welcome your input on our research goals, and we've agreed to look the other way if you want to use up to 20%
SUMMARY:
Sheldon becomes envious when he meets 15-year-old child prodigy Dennis Kim, who was accepted for doctoral studies at the university, and soon realizes that not only is Kim similar to himself (an obnoxious and arrogant child prodigy), but is even smarter than he. Sheldon loses faith in his own research and annoys his friends by criticizing their work more than ever and forcing his own contributions on them. Finding his physics work useless, he aims for the Nobel Peace Prize by attempting to solve all Middle East conflicts, but he annoys everyone, including a Jewish professor, with his proposal that an exact duplicate of Jerusalem be built in the Mexican desert. The others, tired of Sheldon's behavior, decide to distract Kim with girls of the same age. Their plan unexpectedly works at Kim's welcome party, and Kim leaves with a blonde 15-year-old. Sheldon resumes his research while the others are perplexed at how easily Kim was able to get a girl. In a park, the guys spot him drinking heavily and making out. They feel sorry at his demise, but the victorious Sheldon mocks him.