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  • What's next? This is the very copy of the Handbook of Chemistry

  • and Physics in which I looked up the reaction rates of mendelevium and...

  • And what? No...no, no, no, no...

  • What's wrong? I've made a horrible mistake.

  • What are you talking about? This table, it's in square centimeters, I

  • read it as square meters. You know what that means?

  • That american can't handle the metric sistem? Amy, I was off by a factor of 10000!

  • But the chinese team found the element. Yeah, well they shouldn't have, my calculations

  • were wrong. There must be some resonance between the elements I didn't know about.

  • So, you just got lucky? Sheldon Cooper does not get lucky!

  • You and me both, brother... It doesn't matter, the element was found because

  • of you and that's groundbreaking! What matters is the greatest scientific achievement

  • of my life is based on a blunder, I'm not a genius... I'm a fraud...

  • You know, Sheldon, in neuroscience we're forever finding something in one part of the brain

  • that we thought was some place else. Oh great, now I'm worse than a fraud... I'm

  • practically a biologist!

What's next? This is the very copy of the Handbook of Chemistry

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