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The timing of this move perhaps could not be better, as the perennially highly-rated and Emmy-winning Big Bang Theory is off to a gangbusters start for 2013.
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Inflation has become the accepted add-on to Big Bang theory in the past 30 years, even though its physics is highly speculative.
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At a fundamental level, it also supports an "add-on" to this Big Bang theory known as inflation, which postulates that in the very first moments of its existence the Universe opened up in an exponential manner - faster than light itself.
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But Ed Bark, a TV critic behind the TV review website Uncle Barky's Bytes, said that CBS has captured the younger demographic with multi-camera sitcoms like "The Big Bang Theory" and is doing well with its Monday night lineup.
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While accuracy is important to David Saltzberg, a University of California-Los Angeles physics professor and consultant to CBS' Big Bang Theory, he has another goal in mind: outreach.
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It has also served as a launch-pad for other hits on the network, including The Big Bang Theory and newcomer Mike and Molly.
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Harter suggests wearing a T-shirt with a nerdy quote on it (like one from "The Big Bang Theory" that says "Bazinga, " or "See DOS run") or a costume.
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So if Congress can't change their obstructionist ways, they can embrace them - House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor could do a guest spot on the Big Bang Theory, playing a lawmaker trying to shut down funding for scientific research, while his Democratic counterpart, Nancy Pelosi, could say why her party's caucus is secretly trying to destroy the world, for one of David Letterman's top 10 lists.
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Other pilot shows include Zombieland - based on the film of the same name - featuring four survivors attempting to outwit zombies, while animated comedy Dark Minions, written by Big Bang Theory's Kevin Sussman and John Ross Bowie, is about two "slackers" working on an intergalactic warship.
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