Talk:Frank and Alicia/@comment-44236584-20191025220216

Sheldon's outside friends "Frank and Alicia" bring another couple to my mind. He was concerned about the military application of the guidance system he (along with Howard and Leonard) was working on...but his outside friends Frank and Alicia give him reassuring advice.

Ayn Rand's given name was Alissa and was married to her husband Frank O'Connor (a Hollywood actor) for over fifty years. That was long before the events of the Big Bang Theory but, though obviously anachronistic, is may likely be the closest the writers of our favorite sitcom ever came to acknowledging an author I believe very likely to have been a 'critical' and esthetic influence on the entire series (as she was on Star Trek, original series, and Steve Ditko).

In 1946, Ms. Rand interupted work on her novel Atlas Shrugged to write a screenplay for a movie on the making of the Atom Bomb (for producer Hal Wallis) that wasn't made. In her now published Journals she wrote extensively on the issue of such weapons of mass destruction. So if you believe (as I do) that the names are an oblique reference to Ms. Rand, I would highly recommend you look up The Journals of Ayn Rand, Chapter Nine: "Top Secret."