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Carol Ann Susi Carol Ann Susi (February 2, 1952 – November 11, 2014) was an American actress. She was known for providing the voice of recurring unseen character Mrs. Wolowitz, mother of Howard Wolowitz, on the television series "The Big Bang Theory". Susi made her first screen appearance in "", where she played the recurring role of intern Monique Marmelstein. Other television and film credits included: "McMillan & Wife", "Coyote Ugly", "Just Go with It", "The Big Bang Theory", "Becker", "Grey's Anatomy", "That '70s Show", "Out of Practice", "Cats & Dogs", "Just Shoot Me", "Married... with Children", "Night Court", "The
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Carol Ann Susi Carol Ann Susi (February 2, 1952 – November 11, 2014) was an American actress. She was known for providing the voice of recurring unseen character Mrs. Wolowitz, mother of Howard Wolowitz, on the television series "The Big Bang Theory". Susi made her first screen appearance in "", where she played the recurring role of intern Monique Marmelstein. Other television and film credits included: "McMillan & Wife", "Coyote Ugly", "Just Go with It", "The Big Bang Theory", "Becker", "Grey's Anatomy", "That '70s Show", "Out of Practice", "Cats & Dogs", "Just Shoot Me", "Married... with Children", "Night Court", "The
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Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards. Christine Baranski submitted the episode "The Maternal Combustion" for consideration due to her nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the 67th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Carol Ann Susi, the voice of the never-seen Mrs. Wolowitz, died of cancer on November 11, 2014, at age 62. In this season's February 19, 2015 episode, "The Comic Book Store Regeneration", Howard Wolowitz receives a phone call that his mother has died while visiting family in Florida. In February 2014, CBS CEO
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his mom". Howard is an only child. Howard's wife is Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz. Mrs. Wolowitz (voiced by Carol Ann Susi) is not shown on screen until the season 6 episode "The Spoiler Alert Segmentation", but her voice is heard when he is at their house or when he talks to her on the phone. She only communicates with Howard by yelling to him in an obnoxious manner, which results in awkward long-distance conversations, with Howard yelling back at her in a frustrated manner. Her nosy nature and her barrage of questions make Howard's life tense at home, which prompts him to
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call her a "crazy old lady". It is revealed in "The Cohabitation Formulation", however, when Howard briefly moves in with Bernadette, that he likes being "mothered" to some extent. In "The Apology Insufficiency", Sheldon observes that Howard seems to have "an unresolved Oedipus complex". Following the death of Carol Ann Susi, it was decided Mrs. Wolowitz would die in the season 8 episode "The Comic Book Store Regeneration". Howard receives a phone call while in the comic book store from his aunt Gladys in Florida, whom Mrs. Wolowitz had gone to visit. She says that she laid down for a
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was pregnant on July 11, 2017, and disclosed that she had a miscarriage previously. On December 4, 2017 Rauch announced on Instagram that she had given birth to a girl, Sadie. Rauch modeled the voice of Bernadette after her parents: the "sweet, high-pitched purr" is modeled after her mother, while the "eerie, haranguing imitation" of Mrs. Wolowitz is modeled after her father. Both are "very different" from Rauch's real voice. Melissa Rauch Melissa Ivy Rauch (born June 23, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory". Rauch was
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part of screenwriters or film-makers to rewrite or change the stereotype, in pursuance of some revisionist agenda, but that it has simply fallen back a generation. Despite this, the concept of the Jewish mother while declining in film can still be seen in popular culture. One use of the Jewish mother stereotype-trope can be seen in the popular television program "The Big Bang Theory", which premiered in 2007, and was played by the character of Howard Wolowitz's mother who is only heard as a voice character. Mrs. Wolowitz is loud, overbearing, and over-protective of her son. In the television show
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teen giving birth to her cousin/son and accidentally killing her baby brother when he accuses her of consensual incest with their uncle. In the CBS show "The Big Bang Theory", after his father abandoned him and his mother when he was a little boy, Howard Wolowitz maintained a close yet dysfunctional relationship with his mother, the late Mrs. Wolowitz continually even to his adult years, causing Sheldon and several of his friends to mock Wolowitz's relationship with his mother to be compared to the unresolved Oedipus Complex. In season two, after being stoned from ingesting "magic cookies", Howard confesses to
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Howard Wolowitz Howard Joel Wolowitz, M.Eng. is a fictional character on the CBS television series "The Big Bang Theory", portrayed by actor Simon Helberg. Among the main male characters in the show, Howard is distinctive for being an engineer rather than a physicist and lacking a doctoral degree. Howard is named after and based on a computer programmer known by the show's co-creator Bill Prady. Howard is the only starring character who has been to the International Space Station. Along with Sheldon Cooper, Leonard Hofstadter, and Raj Koothrappali, Howard is one of the only characters to appear in every episode
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of Bernadette Rostenkowski, a co-worker of Penny who began to date Howard Wolowitz, in the third season of TV's "The Big Bang Theory". The following season her character became Howard's fiancée and Rauch was promoted to a series regular. The characters married in the season five finale. In December 2011, Rauch and fellow cast members of "The Big Bang Theory" received the first of four nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Other acting credits include "True Blood" (on which she had a recurring role in 2010 as Summer, a
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still cuts his meat for him, takes him to the dentist, does his laundry and "grounds" him when he returns home after briefly moving out. Until Howard's marriage to Bernadette in the fifth-season finale, Howard's former living situation led Leonard's psychiatrist mother to speculate that he may suffer from some type of pathology, and Sheldon to refer to their relationship as Oedipal. In season 8, Howard's mother dies in her sleep while in Florida, which devastates Howard and Stuart, who briefly lived with Mrs. Wolowitz. In the apartment building where Sheldon, Leonard and Penny (and later Amy) live, the elevator
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the season 6 episodes "The Decoupling Fluctuation" and "The Re-Entry Minimization". The season finale depicts Howard Wolowitz traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz rocket. Thanks to technical consulting from astronaut Mike Massimino, who also plays himself on the show, the production crew was able to put together sets that realistically depicts the Soyuz capsule and the ISS. The Soyuz capsule was constructed based on photos from NASA, the Kansas Cosmosphere for dimensions, and scavenged parts from an aerospace junkyard in Los Angeles. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> On Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of seven critics gave the season a
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Comedy Series at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. Bob Newhart won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for the episode "The Proton Resurgence". The season finale of season 5 depicted Howard Wolowitz traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz rocket, and season 6 features him working in the ISS. Thanks to technical consulting from Astronaut Mike Massimino, who also plays himself on the show, the production crew was able to put together sets that realistically depict the Soyuz capsule and the ISS.
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a double date with Raj and his girlfriend Emily (Laura Spencer). Howard instantly recognizes her and it is revealed that he and Emily went on a blind date and due to an upset stomach messed up Emily's bathroom and climbed out the bathroom window. Emily tells Howard she and her friends refer to him as "Clogzilla". Howard Wolowitz Howard Joel Wolowitz, M.Eng. is a fictional character on the CBS television series "The Big Bang Theory", portrayed by actor Simon Helberg. Among the main male characters in the show, Howard is distinctive for being an engineer rather than a physicist and
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lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's similarly geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. Over time, supporting characters have been promoted to starring roles including: physicist Leslie Winkle, neuroscientist Amy Farrah Fowler, microbiologist Bernadette Rostenkowski, and Stuart Bloom, the cash-strapped owner of the comic book store the characters often visit. The show is filmed in front of a live audience and is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Chuck Lorre Productions. "The Big Bang Theory" received mixed reviews from critics throughout its first season, but reception was more favorable in
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by Johnny Galecki, who had previously played Gilbert's love interest David Healy on "Roseanne". In the second episode of the second season of "The Big Bang Theory", Gilbert was elevated to the show's main cast, portraying again a potential love interest of Galecki's character, and at one point a love interest to Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg). By January 2009, it was announced that the writers did not know how to write for her character full-time, and her status was reduced from regular to recurring. Winkle was discontinued after Amy Farrah Fowler and Bernadette Rostenkowski became prominent characters. Gilbert is a
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of Halley Wolowitz on "The Big Bang Theory". Adlon was represented by manager Dave Becky until November 2017, when she fired him following his involvement in the Louis C.K. sexual harassment scandal. In 1996, Adlon married Felix O. Adlon, the son of German director Percy Adlon. They divorced in 2010 and he subsequently moved to Germany. They have three daughters who are also actresses: Odessa Adlon, Gideon Adlon, and Rocky Adlon, to whom Adlon has said she is a single parent. Adlon splits her time between Manhattan, New York and Los Angeles, California. Pamela Adlon Pamela Fionna Adlon ("née" Segall;
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lives of physicists Dr. Leonard Hofstadter and Dr. Sheldon Cooper are shaken up when an attractive young aspiring actress from Omaha, Nebraska named Penny moves into the apartment across the hall from theirs. Leonard begins to become hopelessly enamored of Penny, while she feels only platonic affection for him; as a result, she finds herself putting up with his closest and ever-present friends: his roommate, Sheldon, who appears borderline obsessive-compulsive; engineering whiz Howard Wolowitz, a desperately sex-crazed mama's boy who thinks that his 1960s-style clothing and hairstyle give him an air of cool hipness; and Dr. Rajesh "Raj" Koothrappali, who
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are socially awkward, especially around women. After an unsuccessful visit to the high-IQ sperm bank, they return home and meet Penny, an aspiring actress who moves in next door. When Leonard and Sheldon meet Penny, Leonard is immediately infatuated and hopes to date her, which Sheldon finds unlikely to happen. Sheldon is quite content spending his nights playing Klingon Boggle with their socially dysfunctional friends, fellow geeks Howard Wolowitz, a wannabe ladies man, and Rajesh Koothrappali, who has selective mutism, in particular when Penny is around. However, Leonard sees in Penny a whole new universe of possibilities. He is so
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progress to the boards ... . We worked hard to get all the science right." Several of the actors in "The Big Bang Theory" previously worked together on the sitcom "Roseanne", including Johnny Galecki, Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf (who plays Sheldon's mother, Mary Cooper), and Meagen Fay (who plays Bernadette's mother). Additionally, Lorre was a writer on the series for several seasons. The Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies wrote and recorded the show's theme song, which describes the history and formation of the universe and the Earth. Co-lead singer Ed Robertson was asked by Lorre and Prady to write
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of "The Big Bang Theory". Howard is an Aerospace Engineer at Caltech's Department of Applied Physics who is often seen at the apartment of Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons). He is best friends with Rajesh Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar). He was born in 1981 as specified in season one's episode "The Pancake Batter Anomaly" and is a native of Pasadena (although his mother has an East Coast accent). Howard received his degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Howard sports a mod haircut and tends to wear loud 1960s-era outfits, such as a V-neck T-shirt
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with less education than Howard Wolowitz, who has a master's degree. She initially feels insulted when Leonard shows her a list of community colleges to go to at the beginning of season 2, but in season 6, she does go back to college, taking a history class. By the middle of the season, she is also taking an acting class, and at the beginning of season 7, she is taking a psychology class as well. Despite her weak education, she is insightful. While Sheldon routinely disparages both Penny's and Howard's educations, he occasionally acknowledges her intelligence and potential, though he
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and shared them with Mission Control which then posted the messages via the Internet to Twitter. Massimino's public updates about his training for the STS-125 mission began April 3, 2009. In the PBS children's program "Sid the Science Kid", Michael Massimino appeared as himself in an episode focused on scientists. Beginning in 2012, Massimino appeared as himself in a recurring role on the CBS TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" launching aboard a Russian Soyuz to the International Space Station. He appeared in another episode advising Howard Wolowitz not to go on a second mission to the International Space Station.
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a call sign for each: "Boomer" for Sharon Valerii and "Athena" for Sharon Agathon. In the original 1978 series on which the 2004 series was based, many of these were the characters' actual names, rather than call signs. Payload Specialist Howard Wolowitz from 2007 television series "The Big Bang Theory" has the unwanted astronaut call sign "Froot Loops" given to him by astronaut Mike Massimino. The Hal Jordan version of the DC Comics character Green Lantern, introduced in 1959, was a US Air Force pilot and test pilot with the call sign "Highball". In Tom Clancy's 1993 novel "Without Remorse,"
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return as a winter accessory used to keep the neck warm. By 2015, contemporary designers, like Michael Kors, adopted the dickey in his resort line. In an interview with "InStyle" Magazine, Kors said the dickey was a way to add versatility to a look, without adding bulk. The rise of the dickey in pop culture has also encouraged the rise in popularity. For example, on the TV series "The Big Bang Theory", worn by the character Howard Wolowitz, as well as in "Dinner for Schmucks", where the character Therman Murch (played by Zach Galifianakis) wore an orange turtleneck dickey. Cousin
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Simon Helberg Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" (2007–present), for which he won a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and as Cosmé McMoon in the film "Florence Foster Jenkins" (2016), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Helberg has appeared on the sketch comedy series "MADtv" and is also known for his role as Moist in Joss Whedon's web
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Simon Helberg Simon Maxwell Helberg (born December 9, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is best known for his role as Howard Wolowitz in the sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" (2007–present), for which he won a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, and as Cosmé McMoon in the film "Florence Foster Jenkins" (2016), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Helberg has appeared on the sketch comedy series "MADtv" and is also known for his role as Moist in Joss Whedon's web
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CRS SpX-1, launched successfully in October 2012. Soyuz TMA-03M departed from the ISS on 1 July 2012, successfully returning Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit to Earth. Their departure marked the formal end of Expedition 31, and the beginning of Expedition 32. In the 2012 "The Big Bang Theory" episode "The Friendship Contraction", character Howard Wolowitz revealed that he would be a member of a fictionalized Expedition 31. Expedition 31 Expedition 31 was the 31st long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 27 April 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft, which returned
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Melissa Rauch Melissa Ivy Rauch (born June 23, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory". Rauch was born to a Jewish family in Marlboro Township, New Jersey. Her parents are Susan and David Rauch. She has a brother, Ben. She developed an interest in acting while attending Marlboro High School. Rauch graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City in 2002. Some of Rauch's early work was as a regular contributor to VH1's "Best Week Ever" television show. In 2009, Rauch began playing the recurring role
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TV commercials for Richard Branson's UK financial services company "Virgin Money." He played a small role in the 2007 film "" as a Jewish record producer. In 2007, Helberg was cast as Howard Wolowitz, in the CBS comedy series "The Big Bang Theory". He appeared as the character Moist in "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," and had a small role in the pilot episode of the Judd Apatow-produced sitcom "Undeclared". In the 2009 Coen brothers film "A Serious Man", he played junior Rabbi Scott Ginsler. He had a minor role in the season 4 finale of "The Guild" as one of
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scene. Simon Helberg, who plays Howard, does an impression of Hawking's voice in the episode; he felt slightly uncomfortable mimicking Hawking, but Hawking seemed to enjoy the impression. Hawking is the third high-profile guest star to appear in season 5, after Mike Massimino and Leonard Nimoy. Hawking later appeared in the season 6 episode "The Extract Obliteration", the season 7 episode "The Relationship Diremption" and the season 8 episode "The Troll Manifestation", but in these episodes only his voice is heard. Hawking was shown in a pre-recorded video segment at the "Big Bang Theory" panel at Comic-Con 2013. He apologized
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Metcalf, who played Jackie in "Roseanne", plays Sheldon's mother Mary. Christine Baranski, an alumna of "Cybill", was cast as Leonard's mother Beverly. Also, on "The Big Bang Theory", Sheldon, Leonard, and Penny are seen watching "Oshikuru: Demon Samurai". "Oshikuru" was the show for which the character Charlie Harper wrote the theme song on "Two and a Half Men". Charlie Sheen made a cameo appearance in the "Big Bang Theory" episode "The Griffin Equivalency". Jon Cryer of "Two and a Half Men" appeared in one episode of "Dharma & Greg". Jenna Elfman, Susan Sullivan, and Joel Murray of "Dharma & Greg"
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January 2008 at the recommendation of Eddie Vedder, a supporter of the film and of the duo. Though Sardina had died in 2006, Diamond invited his widow and her family to be his front-row guests at his show in Milwaukee, where he told them he was moved by the film. In the CBS show, The Big Bang Theory, main characters Howard Wolowitz and Amy Farrah-Folwer are fans of Diamond's work. Diamond has been married three times. In 1963, he married his high-school sweetheart, schoolteacher Jaye Posner. They had two daughters, Marjorie and Elyn. They separated in 1967 and divorced in
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A small portion of a chamber that is a model of the ISS was rented and used as the set for the ISS. "Unique camera angles and creative framing" were used to make the set look larger. To simulate weightlessness, the production crew decided to use "long skinny platforms" to support the actors from below, rather than use tethers to suspend from above. The actors were required to act out "motions of microgravity" in order to create "theatrical authenticity". <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> The sixth season received mixed reviews compared to prior seasons. In regards to sending the Howard Wolowitz character into
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it is published. The original game has received an extensive rules review, which nevertheless retains the unique and detailed game systems. Apart from a variety of minor fixes, a series of deeper changes have been made to "fix" the oft-criticised air game rules. An extensive spreadsheet system, backed by custom programming has been developed in association with the update. This "playable" version is hosted at the CNA Play Group. In the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the game is played in "The Neonatal Nomenclature" (S11/Ep1-2018) when character Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) offers to stay with Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz (Melissa Rauch) while
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Cambridge. In 1958, Hoyle was Plumian professor of astronomy at Cambridge and engaged in the study of the structure and evolution of the stars. Even though he coined the phrase “Big Bang,” Hoyle rejected the ‘big bang’ theory of the origin of the universe in favor of the steady state theory, which claimed that the universe has always looked as it does now. Martin Ryle, however, held to the big bang theory for the creation of the universe in a moment, the theory that eventually held sway. Some of Hoyle’s writings, including science fiction and plays, popularized astronomy. Christopher H.
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Lorre and Molaro, with Prady expected to be involved in some capacity, and intended to air in the 2017–18 season alongside "The Big Bang Theory". The initial idea for the series came from Parsons, who passed it along to "The Big Bang Theory" producers. In early March 2017, Iain Armitage was cast as the younger Sheldon, as well as Zoe Perry as his mother, Mary Cooper. Perry is the real-life daughter of Laurie Metcalf, who portrays Mary Cooper on "The Big Bang Theory". On March 13, 2017, CBS ordered the spin-off "Young Sheldon" series. Jon Favreau directed and executive produced
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film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", directed by Benny Boom. Busta Rhymes (aka Trevor Smith) plays Mr. Smith and Gabrielle Union plays Mrs. Smith. will.i.am and Dr. Dre also appear in the video, but for unknown reasons, Kelis does not. It reached number one on BET's "106 & Park". I Love My Bitch "I Love My Bitch" (known as "I Love My Chick" in its edited version) is a song by Busta Rhymes featuring will.i.am (who also produced the track) and Kelis, released as the second single from Busta Rhymes' seventh studio album, "The Big Bang" (2006). The release date for
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advocated and developed by George Gamow, who introduced big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and whose associates, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, predicted the CMB. Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as "this "big bang" idea" during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949. For a while, support was split between these two theories. Eventually, the observational evidence, most notably from radio source counts, began to favor Big Bang over Steady State. The discovery and confirmation of the CMB in 1964 secured the Big Bang as the best theory
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The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers. The show premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007. The twelfth and final season which will run through 2018–19 premiered on September 24, 2018, consisting of 24 episodes. The show originally centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper, both physicists at Caltech, who share an apartment; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who
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to creating radio, TV, and Internet projects aimed making science user friendly. In 2009, Flatow had a voice cameo appearance as himself on the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" in "The Vengeance Formulation" (season 3, episode 9). In the episode, Flatow interviews Dr. Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) on his research on magnetic monopoles. Flatow was given a co-star credit. In 2012, Flatow was referenced in the 3rd season "Archer" episode, "Skin Game", by title character Sterling Archer. In 2013, Flatow appears as himself in person for another guest-star appearance on "The Big Bang Theory", interviewing Dr. Sheldon Cooper and
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however it failed to chart. Bassist Mike Gionet departed after "Voice of Reason" for personal reasons and was replaced by former Blu Bones member Barry Donaghy. The next two albums, "Karma Cleansing" (which was released as "Believe" in Japan) and "Big Bang Theory", saw Harem Scarem modernizing their sound. Barry Donaghy also made his lead vocal debut with Harem Scarem on "Sometimes I Wish" from "Big Bang Theory". Both albums and the singles from them again failed to chart. In 1998, the band released their last commercial single "So Blind". In 1999, Harem Scarem changed their name to Rubber, and
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was a 9% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 13.66 million viewers with a 2.9/7 in the 18-49 demographics. With these ratings, "Person of Interest" was the third most watched show on CBS for the night, beating "Elementary" but behind "Two and a Half Men", and "The Big Bang Theory", second on its timeslot and fifth for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind "The Voice", "Grey's Anatomy", "Two and a Half Men", and "The Big Bang Theory". With Live +7 DVR factored in, the episode was watched by 18.11 million viewers with a 3.9
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the potential to be a bimbo, but she [Cucco] has developed it into a fully fleshed-out woman, who isn't as book-smart as the other characters but is wiser in so many ways. She's also a great straight person, who can get off zingers of her own". Penny (The Big Bang Theory) Penny is a fictional character on the American CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", portrayed by actress Kaley Cuoco. She is the primary female character in the series, befriending her across-the-hall neighbors Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), two physicists who work at the nearby California
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understanding what happened in the earliest times after the Big Bang, and reconciling observations with the basic theory. Cosmologists continue to calculate many of the parameters of the Big Bang to a new level of precision, and carry out more detailed observations which are hoped to provide clues to the nature of dark energy and dark matter, and to test the theory of General Relativity on cosmic scales. History of the Big Bang theory The history of the Big Bang theory began with the Big Bang's development from observations and theoretical considerations. Much of the theoretical work in cosmology now
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co-creator Bill Prady expected to be involved in some capacity, and intended to air in the 2017–18 season alongside "The Big Bang Theory". The initial idea for the series came from Jim Parsons (who portrays the older Sheldon on "The Big Bang Theory"), who passed it along to "The Big Bang Theory" producers. On March 13, 2017, CBS ordered the spin-off "Young Sheldon" series, which was created by Lorre and Molaro. Jon Favreau directed and executive produced the pilot. Parsons, Lorre, Molaro and Todd Spiewak also serve as executive producers on the series, for Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association
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Penn's mobile device. He also spoke about "Tim's Vermeer", the feature documentary he directed, on KCRW's "The Treatment". Teller plays himself, with voice, in Showtime's "Dice" season 2, episode 4. He also appeared in the season 11 finale of CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" as Amy's father. Throughout the show, he is prevented from speaking by his wife, played by Kathy Bates. Once Penny shuts her down, however, Teller tells her (albeit in a whisper) "Thank you." In the first episode of season 12 he participates in dialogues normally. Teller collaborated with Jillette on three magic books, and is also
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History of the Big Bang theory The history of the Big Bang theory began with the Big Bang's development from observations and theoretical considerations. Much of the theoretical work in cosmology now involves extensions and refinements to the basic Big Bang model. In medieval philosophy, there was much debate over whether the universe had a finite or infinite past (see Temporal finitism). The philosophy of Aristotle held that the universe had an infinite past, which caused problems for medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophers who were unable to reconcile the Aristotelian conception of the eternal with the Abrahamic view of creation.
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Religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory Since the emergence of the Big Bang theory as the dominant physical cosmological paradigm, there have been a variety of reactions by religious groups regarding its implications for religious cosmologies. Some accept the scientific evidence at face value, some seek to harmonize the Big Bang with their religious tenets, and some reject or ignore the evidence for the Big Bang theory. The Big Bang itself is a scientific theory and as such stands or falls by its agreement with observations. However, as a theory which addresses the nature of the universe since its
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ordered in a three-year renewal for "The Big Bang Theory", extending the series through the 2013-2014 season. Several high-profile celebrities appear in the season. In "The Transporter Malfunction", actor Leonard Nimoy appears as a voice actor, playing an action-figure Spock that Sheldon imagines talking to him. In the following episode, "The Hawking Excitation", cosmologist Stephen Hawking appears as a guest star. Astronaut Mike Massimino appears in "The Friendship Contraction" and "The Countdown Reflection". Stephen Hawking went on to appear in the season 6 episode "The Extract Obliteration" and the season 7 episode "The Relationship Diremption". Mike Massimino later appeared in
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on the number of galaxies suggest UV absorption by hydrogen and reemission in near-IR (not visible) wavelengths also plays a role. A different resolution, which does not rely on the Big Bang theory, was first proposed by Carl Charlier in 1908 and later rediscovered by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1974. They both postulated that if the stars in the universe were distributed in a hierarchical fractal cosmology (e.g., similar to Cantor dust)—the average density of any region diminishes as the region considered increases—it would not be necessary to rely on the Big Bang theory to explain Olbers' paradox. This model would
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of the Big Bang theory, the book tells the personal stories of the people who played a part in advancing it, both by hypothesis and by experiment. These include Einstein, for his General Relativity, Friedmann for first discovering that this theory led to an expanding universe, Lemaître who concluded independently of Friedman discovered an expanding universe, and then that the theory must lead to an initial event of creation, which is the Big Bang theory we know today, Hubble for observing that the universe expanded, thereby confirming Friedman and Lemaître, Gamow, Alpher, Herman, Ryle, Penzias and Wilson, among many others.
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continued voice acting despite his retirement; his appearance in the third season of "Fringe" included his voice (his character appeared only in animated scenes), and he provided the voice of Sentinel Prime in "". In May 2011, Nimoy made a cameo appearance in the alternate version music video of Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song". Aaron Bay-Schuck, the Atlantic Records executive who signed Mars to the label, is Nimoy's stepson. Nimoy provided the voice of Spock as a guest star in a Season 5 episode of the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" titled "The Transporter Malfunction", which aired on March
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to the producers of the show and requested to appear on an episode of the series. Smoot, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work which cemented the Big Bang theory, is an admitted fan of the series. The scene involving Smoot was shot at the Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California on February 18, 2009. Summer Glau also appeared as herself in the episode. Glau was part of the cast of "" which, along with "The Big Bang Theory," was produced by Warner Bros. Television. Bill Prady, a co-creator of "The Big Bang Theory," presented
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first time since "Dharma & Greg" premiered in 1997, a new show of Lorre's did not use his traditional Vanity Card. Instead a standard production logo was used. "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" were both taped at the Warner Brothers lot, in adjacent stages; the shows shared several writers and technical crews. "The Big Bang Theory" has cast a number of alumni from Lorre's past series, starting with Johnny Galecki from "Roseanne" (he was Darlene's boyfriend and later husband). Sara Gilbert, who played Darlene on "Roseanne", was Leslie Winkle on "The Big Bang Theory". Laurie
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and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory, who rejected the implication that the universe had a beginning. The view from the Hindu "Puranas" is that of an eternal universe cosmology, in which time has no absolute beginning, but rather is infinite and cyclic, rather than a universe which originated from a Big Bang. However, the "Encyclopædia of Hinduism", referencing "Katha Upanishad" 2:20, states that the Big Bang theory reminds humanity that everything came from the Brahman which
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such as Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who is a Sufi scholar, and Muhammad Asad, who was a nondenominational Muslim scholar. Further, some scholars such as Faheem Ashraf of the Islamic Research Foundation International, Inc. and Sheikh Omar Suleiman of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research argue that the scientific theory of an expanding universe is described in Sūrat adh-Dhāriyāt: Religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory Since the emergence of the Big Bang theory as the dominant physical cosmological paradigm, there have been a variety of reactions by religious groups regarding its implications for religious cosmologies. Some accept the scientific evidence at
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a pleasant weirdness to it that makes me think that this is the way Family Guy should be. It's not excellent, but it's more than good enough". The Big Bang Theory (Family Guy) "The Big Bang Theory" is the 16th episode of the ninth season of the animated comedy series "Family Guy". It aired on Fox in the United States on May 8, 2011. This episode follows Stewie and Brian on their quest to stop Stewie's evil half-brother Bertram from going back in time to the Renaissance period and killing Leonardo da Vinci, who is a part of Stewie's ancestry,
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The Big Bang Theory (Family Guy) "The Big Bang Theory" is the 16th episode of the ninth season of the animated comedy series "Family Guy". It aired on Fox in the United States on May 8, 2011. This episode follows Stewie and Brian on their quest to stop Stewie's evil half-brother Bertram from going back in time to the Renaissance period and killing Leonardo da Vinci, who is a part of Stewie's ancestry, in order to prevent Stewie's existence. The episode was written by David A. Goodman and directed by Dominic Polcino. After failing to make a good comeback joke
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Pilot (The Big Bang Theory) The pilot episode and series premiere of "The Big Bang Theory" originally aired on CBS in the United States on September 24, 2007. It was written by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, and directed by James Burrows. It marks the first appearance of all five main characters in the series, and also guest stars Vernée Watson as Althea and Brian Patrick Wade as Kurt. Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are two intelligent young physicists who have a combined IQ of 360 and claim to have "beautiful minds" that understand how the universe works. However, they
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scales, has no preferred directions or preferred places. Hubble's idea allowed for two opposing hypotheses to be suggested. One was Lemaître's Big Bang, advocated and developed by George Gamow. The other model was Fred Hoyle's Steady State theory, in which new matter would be created as the galaxies moved away from each other. In this model, the universe is roughly the same at any point in time. It was actually Hoyle who coined the name of Lemaître's theory, referring to it as "this 'big bang' idea" during a radio broadcast on 28 March 1949, on the BBC Third Programme. It
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show's pilot episode premiered on September 25, 2017. Subsequent weekly episodes began airing on November 2, 2017 following the broadcast of the 237th episode of "The Big Bang Theory". The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers. The show premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007. The twelfth and final season which will run through 2018–19 premiered on September 24, 2018, consisting of 24 episodes. The show
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episode. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> General references The Big Bang Theory (season 10) The tenth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" premiered on CBS Monday, September 19, 2016 and concluded on Thursday, May 11, 2017. It returned to its regular Thursday time slot on October 27, 2016, after "Thursday Night Football on CBS". On March 12, 2014, "The Big Bang Theory" was renewed for an additional three years, extending it through the 2016–17 season for a total of ten seasons. Like the previous two seasons, the first five episodes of the tenth season aired on a different night due
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The Big Bang Theory (season 10) The tenth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" premiered on CBS Monday, September 19, 2016 and concluded on Thursday, May 11, 2017. It returned to its regular Thursday time slot on October 27, 2016, after "Thursday Night Football on CBS". On March 12, 2014, "The Big Bang Theory" was renewed for an additional three years, extending it through the 2016–17 season for a total of ten seasons. Like the previous two seasons, the first five episodes of the tenth season aired on a different night due to to "Thursday Night Football"
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The Big Bang Theory (season 8) The eighth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" first aired on CBS with a one-hour premiere on Monday, September 22, 2014. It returned to its previous Thursday time slot on October 30 for the season's seventh episode. It concluded on May 7, 2015. On March 12, 2014, "The Big Bang Theory" was renewed for an additional three years, extending it through the 2016–17 season for a total of ten seasons. Mayim Bialik submitted the episode "The Prom Equivalency" for consideration due to her nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
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The Big Bang Theory (season 9) The ninth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" started airing on CBS on Monday, September 21, 2015. It returned to its regular Thursday time slot on November 5, 2015 for the season's seventh episode. It concluded on May 12, 2016. On March 12, 2014, "The Big Bang Theory" was renewed for an additional three years, extending it through the 2016–17 season for a total of ten seasons. Laura Spencer was upgraded to the main cast during the season as Dr. Emily Sweeney, after being a recurring cast member for two seasons.
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season. The second half of season seven aired in mid 2014. The eighth season premiered on E4 on October 23, 2014 at 8:30 p.m. During its eighth season, "The Big Bang Theory" shared its 8:30 p.m. time period with fellow CBS comedy, "2 Broke Girls". Following the airing of the first eight episodes of that show's fourth season, "The Big Bang Theory" returned to finish airing its eighth season on March 19, 2015. Netflix UK & Ireland announced on February 13, 2016 that seasons 1–8 would be available to stream from February 15, 2016. "The Big Bang Theory" started off
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Penny (The Big Bang Theory) Penny is a fictional character on the American CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", portrayed by actress Kaley Cuoco. She is the primary female character in the series, befriending her across-the-hall neighbors Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), two physicists who work at the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Penny's lack of advanced education, but outgoing personality and social aptitude drastically contrasts with the personalities of the primary male characters in the series, even though she is considered part of their group. She is the love interest of Leonard, with whom
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The Big Bang Theory (season 6) The sixth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" aired on CBS from September 27, 2012, to May 16, 2013. The series crossed the 20 million viewer mark for the first time with this season's "The Bakersfield Expedition", which along with "NCIS", made CBS the first network to have two scripted series reach that large an audience in the same week since 2007. This success has been attributed to the sitcom's exposure in syndication, its late 2010 move to a new time-slot, and the influence of showrunner Steven Molaro (who took over
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The Big Bang Theory (season 1) The first season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" was originally aired on CBS from September 24, 2007, to May 19, 2008, over 17 episodes. An unaired pilot also exists. The Season 1 DVD came without a gag reel and is, so far, the only "Big Bang Theory" DVD set not to have one. The reissued Blu-ray, was released July 10, 2012, and includes a gag reel that is exclusive to the set. The episodes on Blu-ray are all in remastered surround sound, whereas the DVD version had stereo. Two of the
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The Big Bang Theory (season 5) The fifth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" was originally aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, to May 10, 2012, over 24 episodes. At the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, "The Big Bang Theory" was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series, but "Modern Family" on ABC won. The show was also nominated for Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series and Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series. Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper) was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for "The Werewolf Transformation", but lost out
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only on the women, and in the process has made Penny a much more well-rounded character rather than just a foil for the nerds". Todd VanDerWerff of "The A.V. Club" wrote that "Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco's interplay remains the show's secret weapon", and Eric Hochberger of TV Fanatic wrote: "Really though, everything about the main story worked amazing. Mayim fits in perfectly in "The Big Bang Theory" cast and played off of Kaley Cuoco just as well as Emmy Award-winning Parsons". The Big Bang Theory (season 4) The fourth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", began
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quietly in Canada, but managed to garner major success in later seasons. "The Big Bang Theory" is telecast throughout Canada via the CTV Television Network in simultaneous substitution with cross-border CBS affiliates. Now immensely popular in Canada, "The Big Bang Theory" is also rerun daily on the Canadian cable channel The Comedy Network. The season 4 premiere garnered an estimated 3.1 million viewers across Canada. This is the largest audience for a sitcom since the series finale of "Friends" (12.4 million viewers). "The Big Bang Theory" has pulled ahead and has now become the most-watched entertainment television show in Canada.
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The Big Bang (1987 film) The Big Bang AKA Le Big-Bang is an X-rated animated science fiction fantasy film, originally released in 1987 by 20th Century Fox in France and Entertainment Film Distributors, Ltd in the United Kingdom. The UK version was written by English satirist Tony Hendra, who was also the voice director. In 1995, World War III begins; Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden destroys itself. The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who unleash their nuclear fleet, leaving only two continents on the verge of
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was buried at the racetrack's Circle of Champions. In The Big Bang Theory, one of the show's main character Penny (The Big Bang Theory) is from Omaha. Sports have been important in Omaha for more than a century, and the city currently plays host to three minor-league professional sports teams. Omaha has hosted the annual June NCAA College World Series men's baseball tournament since 1950. It has been played at the downtown TD Ameritrade Park since 2011. The Omaha Sports Commission is a quasi-governmental nonprofit organization that coordinates much of the professional and amateur athletic activity in the city, including
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astronomy (cosmology), that appear to correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology, e.g. Carl Sagan, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Robert Oppenheimer, George Sudarshan, Fritjof Capra etc. At the November 22, 1951, opening meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Pius XII declared that the Big Bang theory does not conflict with the Catholic concept of creation. Some Conservative Protestant Christian denominations have also welcomed the Big Bang theory as supporting a historical interpretation of the doctrine of creation; however, adherents of Young Earth creationism, who advocate a very literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, reject the
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still annoy him). Wil Wheaton begins appearing as Sheldon's arch-enemy. Howard begins to date Bernadette Rostenkowski. At the end of the season, Sheldon meets Amy Farrah Fowler. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> The third season received favorable reviews. Maureen Ryan of "Chicago Tribune" wrote that ""Big Bang Theory," which is in its third season, is doing many things very right", Alan Sepinwall of "The Star-Ledger" wrote "the Penny/Sheldon interaction was gold, as always", and Ken Tucker of "Entertainment Weekly", who wrote that "what lifts "The Big Bang Theory" into frequent excellence is its one constant from the start: the brilliantly nuanced performance of
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himself in "The Spock Resonance", the November 5, 2015, episode of the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", in which he interviewed Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) for the documentary on his father, who made a voice cameo in the episode "The Transporter Malfunction" in the series' fifth season. It had been stated that Quinto would provide narration for the documentary, but Adam Nimoy found that there were "so many archival interviews and voice recordings" that narration was not needed. The documentary's first trailer was released April 13, 2016, and the theatrical trailer and poster on July 20. A preliminary version
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Fred Hoyle Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was a British astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. He also held controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term coined by him on BBC radio, and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth. He also wrote science fiction novels, short stories and radio plays, and co-authored twelve books with his son, Geoffrey Hoyle. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge and served as its director
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plays both Marjorie from "Mom" and Abby (Dharma's mother) in "Dharma & Greg". Also, Allison Janney and Jaime Pressly from "Mom" appeared in episodes of "Two and a Half Men". In the season 6 "Big Bang Theory" episode "The Holographic Excitation", Sheldon and Amy are fighting over which couple to go as to a Halloween party. Among her suggestions seen on a whiteboard are "Blossom & Joey" (Blossom and Amy both being played by Mayim Bialik) and "Dharma & Greg". Katy Mixon, who plays Victoria on "Mike & Molly", also had a recurring role as the character, Betsy, on "Two
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voice." Jung concluded that "Day by Day" "tapped into the Zeitgeist, blending a deep affinity for torch songs with the swagger of hip-hop, and set a wildfire to the K-pop fandom." Tamar Herman from news website "KpopStarz" choose "Day by Day" as one of the most definitive Big Bang songs, admiring the group's artistic capabilities and how every member was able to shine. The music video for "Day by Day" presents a storyline where G-Dragon plays the protagonist that believes his girlfriend, played by actress Park Min-young, is cheating on him with his friend, played by T.O.P, and the two
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Cheetah person named Karra in the 1989 Doctor Who story Survival. She also voices the character of Bernice Summerfield in many audio plays, released on CD by Big Finish. Big Bang Generation Big Bang Generation is a BBC Books original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Twelfth Doctor and Bernice Summerfield, making her first appearance in the New Series Adventures along with the Doctor from the revived series. The book was released on 10 September 2015 as a part of "The Glamour Chronicles", alongside "Royal Blood"
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an eternal cycle of fiery birth, cooling and rebirth. The theory addresses the fundamental question that remains unanswered by the big bang inflationary model: what happened before the big bang? The explanation, according to the ekpyrotic theory, is that the big bang was actually a big bounce, a transition from a previous epoch of contraction to the present epoch of expansion. The key events that shaped our universe occurred before the bounce, and, in a cyclic version, the universe bounces at regular intervals. The original ekpyrotic models relied on string theory, branes and extra dimensions, but most contemporary ekpyrotic and
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"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" as an unnamed prisoner who is later revealed to be the Sultan of Agrabah and father of the show's principal antagonist: Jafar. He guest starred in "SpongeBob SquarePants" in the episode "Drive Happy" as Coupe. Brian George Brian George (born 1 July 1952) is an Israeli-English actor, singer, voice artist and comedian best known for playing Pakistani restaurateur Babu Bhatt on "Seinfeld" and the gynaecologist father of Raj Koothrappali on "The Big Bang Theory". George was born in Jerusalem on 1 July 1952, to Jewish parents of Baghdadi Jewish (Iraqi Jewish) descent, who had
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the polarization and the microwave background on small angular scales are ongoing. These include DASI, WMAP, BOOMERanG, QUaD, Planck spacecraft, Atacama Cosmology Telescope, South Pole Telescope and the QUIET telescope. The cosmic microwave background radiation and the cosmological redshift-distance relation are together regarded as the best available evidence for the Big Bang theory. Measurements of the CMB have made the inflationary Big Bang theory the Standard Cosmological Model. The discovery of the CMB in the mid-1960s curtailed interest in alternatives such as the steady state theory. The CMB essentially confirms the Big Bang theory. In the late 1940s Alpher and
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The Big Bang Theory (season 11) The eleventh season of the American television sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" premiered on CBS on Monday, September 25, 2017. It returned to its regular Thursday time slot on November 2, 2017, after "Thursday Night Football on CBS" ended. The season concluded on May 10, 2018. In March 2017, CBS renewed the series for two additional seasons, bringing its total to twelve, and running through the 2018–19 television season. Like the previous three seasons, the first five episodes aired on Mondays due to CBS' contractual rights to air the "Thursday Night Football" games. After
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scripts and provides dialogue, math equations and diagrams used as props. Clips from the season finale, "The Tangerine Factor", gained popularity on the Chinese video-sharing website Tudou because of Sheldon's inaccurate Mandarin. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> "The Big Bang Theory" initially received mixed reviews, receiving 52% "rotten" score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews, with the critics consensus reading ""The Big Bang Theory" brings a new class of character to mainstream television, but much of the comedy feels formulaic and stiff." It also received a 57-point score on review aggregator Metacritic, indicating "mixed or average reviews", based on 23
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the expansion described by the standard Big Bang theory. The theory of cosmic inflation preserves the successes of the Big Bang while providing a natural explanation for some of the mysterious features of the universe. The theory has also received striking support from observations of the cosmic microwave background, the radiation that has filled the sky since around 380,000 years after the Big Bang. In the theory of inflation, the rapid initial expansion of the universe is caused by a hypothetical particle called the inflaton. The exact properties of this particle are not fixed by the theory but should ultimately
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theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang. Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there's no way one could measure what happened at them." However, pre-big bang singularity might have emerged or preceded by possibly certain events, such as: Pre–Big Bang physics Pre–Big Bang physics (PBBP) are physics which can be speculated to have existed prior to the Big Bang. PBBP may have been radically different from the current laws of physics. Although theoretical speculation on possible PBBP have only begun, research into the field could hold incredible implications for the makeup of the
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The Big Bang Theory (season 12) The twelfth and final season of the American television sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" premiered on CBS on September 24, 2018. The series returned to its regular Thursday time slot on September 27, 2018. In March 2017, CBS renewed the series for two additional seasons, bringing its total to twelve, and running through the 2018–19 television season. On August 22, 2018, CBS and Warner Bros. Television officially announced that the twelfth season would be the series' last. This stems from Jim Parsons' decision to leave the series at the end of the season if
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the show were to be renewed for a thirteenth season. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> The Big Bang Theory (season 12) The twelfth and final season of the American television sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" premiered on CBS on September 24, 2018. The series returned to its regular Thursday time slot on September 27, 2018. In March 2017, CBS renewed the series for two additional seasons, bringing its total to twelve, and running through the 2018–19 television season. On August 22, 2018, CBS and Warner Bros. Television officially announced that the twelfth season would be the series' last. This stems from Jim Parsons'
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test for the Big Bang theory. If the observed helium abundance is significantly different from 25%, then this would pose a serious challenge to the theory. This would particularly be the case if the early helium-4 abundance was much smaller than 25% because it is hard to destroy helium-4. For a few years during the mid-1990s, observations suggested that this might be the case, causing astrophysicists to talk about a Big Bang nucleosynthetic crisis, but further observations were consistent with the Big Bang theory. Deuterium is in some ways the opposite of helium-4, in that while helium-4 is very stable
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become a crutch for the writers to lean on". Jesse Schedeen of "IGN" criticized the storylines, writing that "The entire episode was pretty much predicated on two jokes ... But those two jokes had enough mileage in them to last a full 22 minutes". The Big Bang Theory (season 6) The sixth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" aired on CBS from September 27, 2012, to May 16, 2013. The series crossed the 20 million viewer mark for the first time with this season's "The Bakersfield Expedition", which along with "NCIS", made CBS the first network to
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has lived in France, Germany, Japan (where she taught English in the early 1990s), and the United States. She moved to Los Angeles, California in the early 1990s. Despite her best-known role as "Mrs. Koothrappali", she has said she has no Indian ancestry. Alice Amter Alice Amter (born 11 May 1966 in Birmingham) is an English actress, best known for her character Mrs. Koothrappali in the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" and Dr. Kapoor on Hot in Cleveland. Born Alice Edwards, she grew up in Handsworth before moving to Edgbaston, Leamington Spa and Rubery. Whilst living in Leamington Spa
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for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. "The Big Bang Theory" also won the 2016 People's Choice Awards for under "Favorite TV Show" and "Favorite Network TV Comedy" with Jim Parsons winning Favorite Comedic TV Actor. On January 20, 2016, The Big Bang Theory also won the International category at the UK's National Television Awards. On March 16, 2014, a Lego Ideas project portraying the living room scene in Lego style with the main cast as mini-figures reached 10,000 supporters on the platform, which qualified it to be considered as an official set by the Lego Ideas review board. On
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out a theory that has since come to be called the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. In 1948, Fred Hoyle set out his opposing Steady State theory in which the universe continually expanded but remained statistically unchanged as new matter is constantly created. These two theories were active contenders until the 1965 discovery, by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, of the cosmic microwave background radiation, a fact that is a straightforward prediction of the Big Bang theory, and one that the original Steady State theory could not account for. As a result, the Big Bang theory
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calling it "a great start for the series", and stating that the writing was "some of the best we've seen in a standard sitcom in some time". Matthew Gilbert of "The Boston Globe", however, gave a negative review, saying that the show is "one of those laugh-track sitcoms that has exactly one comedy routine and just keeps hammering it home". Pilot (The Big Bang Theory) The pilot episode and series premiere of "The Big Bang Theory" originally aired on CBS in the United States on September 24, 2007. It was written by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, and directed by
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placed first in all of syndication ratings, receiving formidable competition from only "Judge Judy" and "Wheel of Fortune" (first-run syndication programs). By the end of the 2012–13 television season, "The Big Bang Theory" had dethroned "Judge Judy" as the ratings leader in all of syndicated programming with 7.1, "Judy" descending to second place for that season with a 7.0. "The Big Bang Theory" did not place first in syndication ratings for the 2013–14 television season, beaten out by "Judge Judy". The show made its United Kingdom debut on Channel 4 on February 14, 2008. The show was also shown as
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The Big Bang Theory (season 4) The fourth season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory", began airing on CBS on September 23, 2010. Season four started four months after the end of season 3. Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik were upgraded to the main cast during the fourth season as Dr. Bernadette Rostenkowski and Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler. Johnny Galecki submitted the episode "The Benefactor Factor" for consideration due to his nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Jim Parsons won the Primetime Emmy Award
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The Big Bang Theory (season 2) The second season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" was originally aired on CBS from September 22, 2008, to May 11, 2009, over 23 episodes. The Complete Season DVD was released September 15, 2009, and a Blu-ray version was reissued on July 10, 2012, with remastered surround sound audio, whereas the DVD version only had stereo. Season two starts immediately after the end of season one with Leonard and Penny's date. Jim Parsons submitted the episode "The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis" for consideration due to his nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award
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The Big Bang Theory (season 7) The seventh season of the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" aired on CBS from September 26, 2013, to May 15, 2014. Kaley Cuoco was credited as "Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting" from "The Convention Conundrum" and onwards after her wedding with Ryan Sweeting on December 31, 2013. Mayim Bialik submitted the episode "The Indecision Amalgamation" for consideration due to her nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. Jim Parsons won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at
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