By Sunil Kumar

The fictional Sheldon Cooper would be absolutely impressed by you comparing him to the great Archimedes, although never saying anything overtly. Or to be fair, he may sarcastically criticize you for the comparison to a mediocre citizen of an ancient kingdom who had no idea about the indivisibility of the atom and the all pervasiveness of the space-time continuum.

To be fair, Bazinga is a phrase used by the socially awkward Cooper to indicate that he fooled you after a joke. It is a means of ridiculing the other person, originating from the addition of ‘ba’ before ‘zing’(fool, ridicule, I’m right, your’re wrong types)

Similar in tone and intent to ‘gotcha’. Avid watchers of the Big Bang Theory know that Sheldon’s sense of humour is in a league of its own. To conclude, the actor Jim Parsons seems to be nice guy and has done a good job of playing the uber nerd Sheldon Cooper.

So, you see no relation to Archimedes’ Eureka which was in all likelihood said by him after a major scientific revelation. Even the famous story of him running nude and saying ‘Eureka’ has been recently disputed as a folk tale or an urban legend.