Sheldon Cooper's Universe: Adamantium to the Zoot Suit Riots

Who do you think is the hotter babe, Seven of Nine or T’Pol?



Who is your preferred scientist, Archimedes, Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein or Erwin Schroeder?



Do you prefer DC or Marvel Comics?



Can you tell the difference between Kadhai Paneer and Pad Thai?



Do you know why 73 is the best number?



If you know the answer to some or all of these questions, then this is the book for you. If you do not know the answer to any of these questions, then this is definitely the book for you.



In 2007, the Big Bang Theory hit the television screens of America on the CBS network. It told the story of two flatmates living in Pasadena, California. Dr. Sheldon Lee Cooper (IQ: 187), a theoretical physicist and Dr. Leonard Leakey Hofstadter (IQ: 173), an experimental physicist. Together, with their friends Dr. Rajesh “Raj” Ramayan Koothrappali, an astrophysicist and Howard Wolowitz, an engineer, they form a tightly-knit friendship group.



Their lives revolved around their work at Caltech, visits to the Comic Book Store, paintballing, kite flying, watching Star Trek and Star Wars on television, playing video-games and Klingon boggle and eating take away meals.



Then, into their settled existence arrived Penny, aged twenty-two, the new tenant in the apartment opposite to Sheldon and Leonard’s. An aspiring actress working as a waitress in the Cheesecake Factory, Penny is young, blonde, perky and cute, almost from a different species to the four guys. Their reactions to her differed; Sheldon was indifferent, Raj was speechless, Leonard was besotted while Howard thought that she was extremely doable.



Now in its seventh season, the show charts the continued impact that Penny, the community college, corn-fed girl from Omaha, Nebraska, has upon the lives of the four, “beautiful minds”



This book concentrates upon one of the four friends, Sheldon Cooper, the Texas born, über-genius. As a child prodigy, he started college at the age of eleven and was awarded his first Ph.D. aged sixteen. By the start of the first season, Sheldon has acquired a Bachelor of Science Degree, a Master’s Degree, two Doctorates, an inflated ego, a complete lack of any sympathy or empathy for those around him, together with an over-riding belief that one day he will win a Nobel Prize for Physics.



The book focuses upon his social ineptness and the manner in which Sheldon views any conversation, on any topic, as an opportunity to lecture those present with his encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject, or any other issue which he cares to expound upon.



Additionally, the book adds extra factual information to Sheldon’s soliloquies, putting them into context. It also rectifies his mistakes, as sadly, Sheldon is not entirely correct when he says: “Don’t you think if I were wrong, I’d know it?”



Other Books by Andrew Alexander:



Penny Blossoms

Claude Monet

Countries of the World Cup

Fine Dining

First in French

First in Spanish

Great War Poets

Hannibal and the Battle of Cannae

Leonard Nimoy

Manchester United – 101 Fascinating Facts

Nelson Mandela

Origins of Alcoholics Anonymous

Ottoman Turks

Six Voices

The Borgias

Women of Star Trek

Vincent van Gogh

Wolf Hall Companion