Just to provoke Steven a bit, I note that those little whirly things in the opening credits are not helium atoms as I'd first supposed. There's no nucleus. If you freeze the frame at the right moment, you'll find the two dots are clearly labelled e^- and e⁺: It's positronium. (You may not have spotted this yet due to the... distraction... offered at that point.)

There's an organic molecule shown there as well, but it's been twenty years since I did any organic chemistry, so I didn't see what it was. Anyone? It might be relevant to the plot; I've been told that you need a solid understanding of physical chemistry and some relativity and particle physics to understand the original novels, but since you also need to be able to read Japanese, I don't even make it to the starting post. (Okay, I watched it again. It's just benzene. ⌬ I thought I saw some oxygen in there, but that was just Haruhi's head getting in the way.)

And though I don't know what all the algebra and calculus is, I did spot the Drake equation. Which kind of comes unstuck when you throw someone like Haruhi into the mix, ne?

There may even be something going on in the background when Mikuru is waving her pompoms about, but I guess we'll never know.

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