Sylar question

Since I re-watched part of season 3 last night instead of working on my presentation for class, I thought of something that's been bugging me:
Sylar couldn't have been more than about 4 when his bio-dad sold him to Martin and Virginia in 1980, because if he were older then he would have remembered living with his bio-parents. It makes sense that he repressed the memory of that one day but it wouldn't make sense for him to repress all his memories prior to that, unless he was just too young to remember much anyway. So that would put Sylar's age at about 32 in season 3.

When he confronted Martin (his adoptive dad), he said Martin had left 27 years ago. That would make Sylar about 5 when Martin left, only a year after he adopted Sylar.

Why then was Sylar's repair shop called "Gray & Son," if it would be 13 years before Sylar would be able to take over his dad's business? Who ran the business in the meantime? Martin left town; if he'd continued running his shop then it would have been pretty easy for his wife to find him. So did she take over the shop until Sylar was old enough? That doesn't seem likely, since she doesn't see his watch-repairing as anything more than a hobby.

OR did Sylar start his own shop and choose the name Gray & Son himself because he is just that messed up in the head that he wants to live the fantasy of his father still being there and approving of him?

Is it any wonder Sylar's a Woobie for a lot of fans? In addition to being the Big Bad and Draco in Leather Pants.

LOL WHUT

I'll repost the hilarious videos here before the post in _scientists_ is inevitably and well-deservedly deleted:

FLUORIDE, O NOES!

You know what's sad? My nutjob dentist once started going off about the evils of fluoride in the water supply. He said it was the Nazis' idea. And you know whose fault the Nazis are, right? DARWIN.

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The video with the condescending whack job claiming to be some kind of doctor in my last post reminded me:

I've been watching Flashforward because 1) John Cho, 2) cool sci-fi premise! and 3) JOHN CHO and something has happened a few times that I've seen happen in other sci-fi things too: a (usually male) character says to a (usually female) character "have you heard of [insert science-y thing]?" and the second character says "no" so the first character can explain it for the benefit of the audience.

I remember it happening twice in Flashforward: once it was "do you know anything about string theory?" and the other was "have you heard of the many worlds hypothesis?" and in both cases I could have said "WHY YES, ACTUALLY!" Oh, also there was the time Merry Dominic Monaghan's character acted like a huge, egotistical asshole in order to convince a stranger to sleep with him (and it worked). She hadn't heard of Schrödinger's Cat. WTF who hasn't heard of that? Anyway, that wasn't originally intended to illustrate the principle of quantum mechanics, it was to demonstrate the absurdity of trying to apply it to macro-scale objects. LIKE A CAT, FOR EXAMPLE.

A lot of people get that wrong. I'm not sure why a character who's supposed to be a genius physicist would. Ohh, right, it's because the writers are trying to make up cool physics things and can't even be bothered to look it up on Wikipedia and are relying on the assumption that most of the audience is even more ignorant about science than they are. And sadly, they're right.