“She’s better , Meemaw. She solves problems by feeling them. That’s not science. That’s witchcraft.”
Georgie crosses his arms. “Dad. It’s 1990. The drive-in is where you take a girl when you want to hold her hand. Geez.”
“Well,” George Sr. says slowly. “I’ll tell you what I tell my boys on the field. You don’t have to be the best. You just have to be better than you were yesterday.” young sheldon s02e07 720p
“There’s someone else,” Sheldon announces, his voice flat.
The Cooper household in Medford, Texas, is never quiet, but on this particular Tuesday afternoon, the silence is deafening. Sheldon Cooper, age ten, sits at the kitchen table, his chin resting on his folded hands. Before him lies a letter from Dr. John Sturgis, his mentor and fellow physicist. For weeks, Sheldon has been the sole teenage prodigy under Sturgis’s wing, attending university lectures and feeling, for the first time, intellectually challenged. But the letter isn’t an invitation to a new experiment. It’s a warning. “She’s better , Meemaw
“Dad,” Sheldon says quietly. “I’m not the smartest person I know anymore.”
Paige starts by closing her eyes, then begins drawing spirals. Sheldon starts by writing fifty-seven equations. Halfway through, Paige leans over, looks at his work, and whispers, “You’re overcomplicating the Penrose tiles.” She then solves the problem in twelve lines. Sheldon’s answer is thirty-two lines and still incomplete. That’s witchcraft
The next day at East Texas Tech, Sheldon arrives early. He has polished his cowboy boots. He has even allowed his mother to comb down his cowlick. He sits stiffly in Dr. Sturgis’s cluttered office, which smells of old coffee and chalk dust. When the door opens, in walks a small, freckled girl with a messy ponytail and a t-shirt featuring a cartoon cat. She is sucking on a lollipop.