The Hawking Excitation

Sheldon: Professor Hawking, it's an honor and a privilege to meet you, sir.

Stephen Hawking: I know.

Sheldon: I want to thank you for taking time to see me.

Stephen: My pleasure. I enjoyed reading your paper very much. You clearly have a brilliant mind.

Sheldon: I know.

Stephen: Your thesis that the Higgs boson is a black hole accelerating backwards through time is fascinating.

Sheldon: Thank you. It just... it came to me one morning in the shower.

Stephen: That's nice. Too bad it's wrong.

Sheldon: [twitching] What do you mean wrong?

Stephen: You made an arithmetic mistake on page two. It was quite the boner.

Sheldon: No, no... that can't be right. [looking through paper] I... I don't make arithmetic mistakes.

Stephen: Are you saying I do?

Sheldon: Oh, no, no, of course not. It just, I was thinking... Oh, gosh, golly. I made a boo-boo, and I gave it to Stephen Hawking.

[Sheldon faints dead away]

Stephen: Great, another fainter.

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Sheldon He's a famous physicist.

Penny Hang on, I know. He's the wheelchair-dude who invented time.

Sheldon Close enough.