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  1. The Raj Koothrappali Experiment by

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    15 Sep 2026

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    **Experiment:** Classification of Intimate Behaviour Between Male Best Friends

    **Primary Researcher:** Howard J. Wolowitz, M.Eng.

    **Research Participant:** Dr. Rajesh Koothrappali, Ph.D.

    **Uninvited Peer Reviewer:** Dr. Sheldon Cooper, Ph.D., Sc.D.

    **Sheldon Cooper's Contribution:** Identification of methodological errors, uncontrolled variables, researcher bias, contradictory evidence, and several conclusions the primary researcher specifically requested he stop making.

    **Duration:** Approximately fifteen years

    **Status:** Ongoing longitudinal study

    **Objective:** To determine whether repeated physical intimacy between two heterosexual male best friends constitutes romantic behaviour.

    **Secondary Objective, added without authorisation by Dr. Cooper:** To determine how long an engineer can continue rejecting experimental evidence before it becomes statistically indistinguishable from denial.

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