I have to say that I've only caught snippets of the show on a plane, but the description of the theoretical physicist character is in line with my experiences with physicists (undergrad and grad). It sounds more like a faithful description of the culture of physicists (particularly theoretical physicists) without the need to bring in Asperger's. As an engineer with a PhD and who has had many close friends who were physicists, I particularly like the character belitlling of engineers. That's classic physics culture (until they try to use the statistical mechanics to figure out the heat duty of a heat exchanger). Now maybe most theoretical physicists are aspies, but methinks the author is reading too much into the character.