Young Sheldon S01e09 Lossless Review

A Minor Setback in the Pursuit of Certainty

"Bad is a subjective term. Objectively, it means my doctoral dissertation notes on the application of superstring theory to M-theory are trapped in a silicon limbo. It's a Schrödinger's cat situation, except the cat is definitely dead and the box is on fire."

He sat back down. The certainty of science had been his fortress. Math didn't lie. Physics didn't cheat. But now, a single, unexplained glitch had opened a crack in the wall. What if other things were uncertain? What if the orbit of Halley's Comet was off by a decimal? What if pi suddenly resolved? young sheldon s01e09 lossless

Missy appeared, less interested in the computer and more interested in the dramatic potential. "Is he gonna cry?"

His father, George, found him there an hour later. He didn't say anything at first. He just stood in the doorway, scratching his belly. A Minor Setback in the Pursuit of Certainty

He had attempted to upgrade the RAM. He had followed the manual. He had worn the anti-static wrist strap. He had triple-checked the seating of the SIMM modules. And yet, the laws of thermodynamics and electrical engineering had, for the first time in his memory, betrayed him.

"Lossless," he whispered to himself. The word felt hollow. He had explained to his mother that morning that upgrading Colossus would be a lossless process. Data in, data out. A perfect, closed system. Now, the system was open. Bleeding. The certainty of science had been his fortress

Sheldon looked up, his eyes wide. "What did you do?"