There is much to understand about the Cooper family. Mainly, all the kids are geniuses. Like top 10 smartest on the planet geniuses. They were all raised by their God-fearing mother in east Texas and all three of them left as soon as she would let them. Now Missy was probably the "least smart" if you could say that about a young girl who made Dougie Howser look like a chimpanzee playing with its own poop. She became a Pediatric Endocrinologist by the time she was 16 and found that she loved working with and helping kids. After about 10 years she was a world renowned doctor having won pretty much every major medical award in her field. This by the time most were just finishing their residency. She was beautiful and smart and in command of every situation she entered. She, just like the rest of the Cooper family, was also very protective of her twin, Sheldon.
Then of course there was Sheldon, child prodigy in a family of child prodigies. He had an IQ of 187 which he told everyone about. He was a teenager when he went to live in Germany as a guest lecturer in physics. He had two doctorates and other degrees by the time he was 17 and was a Stevenson Award winner. He was also quirky and to some people weird, but at the end of the day he was a well-respected figure in the physics community and, without argument from anyone, a future Nobel Prize winner. Luckily for him most of those things outweighed his demand nature.
And then there was George Cooper. The eldest Cooper was undoubtedly the smartest, not just smartest Cooper, but to many people the smartest human on the planet. A physicist as well, he left home at 15 to receive two bachelor's degrees in the less than two years and three doctorates by the time he was 20. His IQ, like Sheldon's, could not be adequately gauged, but experts put it around 195. It was that 8 point difference that Sheldon had tried to live up to his whole life. George was always supportive of his younger siblings, especially Sheldon, and was always commenting on his work with String Theory. The thing that made George Cooper really special was that in the physics community he was considered Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop and Beyoncé all rolled into one. His lectures were often chaotic and scientists came from around the world to watch the former boy genius play loud music and have grad students dance around while he was trying to explain quarks. Everyone who met George Cooper seemed to fall in love with him right away. He was handsome, charming, an Oxford professor and not the least bit intimidating. People felt like they could just walk up, start a conversation and he never once brought up his IQ. He was always willing to learn from those that others would deem to be less intelligent. In many ways he was very much like Sheldon and in so many was he was not.
"That's so cool. When?" The text message from Wolowitz sprung up on Raj's phone about 10 seconds later.
"Don't know. Talk soon." Raj quickly typed.
Penny had had a rather long day. Waitressing sucked and people sucked and her boss sucked and old people drank too much coffee and didn't tip and people sucked. Nothing sounded better than a hot bath and a glass of wine. It all sounded so good, just relaxing and watching Sex In The City. Just a few more steps and she was almost there to her quiet little apartment. That's when she heard it. Shouts of "Oh My Gawd" and "When, When, When" rang from 4A and she knew her guys were either playing a game or just created a robot girlfriend.
"What's up?" she said into the room to no one in particular.
"George Cooper is coming to see Sheldon." fired off Wolowitz before she closed the door.
She was excited to hear that Sheldon's brother was coming to visit. She never met George but understood that he was a lot like Sheldon in many ways but yet so very different. That's when Howard, Raj and Leonard all jumped up wanting to know what time George would be arriving, what he would be doing while he was here and what other things Sheldon was keeping from them. That's when Penny noticed that Sheldon seem to be overcome, he seem to be crawling in his own skin not wanting to answer the guys question.
"Back off guys. Give him a minute." She said stepping up to Sheldon and taking him by the arm and leading him to his spot on the couch. He didn't flinch.
"It's just his brother. Calm freaking down." She said it flatly to try to make a point to the very excited trio.
"Calm down?" Shouted Wolowitz.
"Do you know who George Cooper is?" Leonard said it so fast he quickly left the room and returned holding his inhaler.
"No. Why don't one of you trying explaining it to me." The sarcasm so thick in her voice she was sure they would pick up on it. They didn't.
"George Cooper is without a doubt one of the most brilliant people on Earth. He has worked with Hawking, Yang and is friends, actual freaking friends with Michio Kaku. Hell the man was exchanging letters when he was a kid with Andrei Sakharov, talking about physics. He is the Isaac Newton of our time. Holy shit...he's coming here." Raj said all of this so fast he looked like he was going to pass out before he could take another swig of his beer. Penny became aware that this was as big a deal to them as a new Star Wars movie.