Posted on 03/29/2011 3:09:31 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Could Einstein's Theory of Relativity be a few mathematical equations away from being disproved? Jacob Barnett of Hamilton County, Ind., who is just weeks shy of his 13th birthday, thinks so. And, he's got the solutions to prove it.
Barnett, who has an IQ of 170, explained his expanded theory of relativity — in a YouTube video. His mother Kristine Barnett, who admittedly flunked math, did what every other mother would do if her genius son started talking mathematical gibberish. She told him to explain the whole thing slowly while she taped her son explaining his take on the theory.
While most of his mathematical genius goes over our heads, some professors at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey — you know, the U.S. academic homeroom for the likes of Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Kurt Gödel — have confirmed he's on the right track to coming up with something completely new. For now, they're encouraging Barnett to continue doing what he likes to do, which is explaining calculus using a whiteboard marker and his living room windows as seen in the video above.
“I'm impressed by his interest in physics and the amount that he has learned so far,” Institute for Advanced Study Professor Scott Tremaine wrote in an email to the family. “The theory that he's working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics.”
“Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize,” he added.
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The kid was probably Einstein in a past life. Just continuing the work he started.
Back to the Ether.
bkmk
That assumes a SD=15
I’ve taken a number of IQ tests over the years and have scored anywhere between 120 and 145, depending on tests, but I always get clobbered in the math parts. Add, subtract, multiply, divide. Those I can handle. Anything above that, forget it. I am a basket case.
Well, Bobby, here we have a question from a young man in Indiana who is the same age as you. ‘Is the speed of light constant?’ Hmmm. You know the Mr. Science motto, ‘Doing Is Knowing!’ We’ll be using the headlights in the Mr. Sciencemobile, a 1973 AMC Gremlin. Here’s a stopwatch, Bobby. I’ll say ‘go’ and you see how long it takes for the light to reach you. ‘Go!’ That seems pretty fast. Now, I’ll drive the Sciencemobile into the studio at 60 miles per hour and yell ‘go’ and we’ll see if there’s any difference. OK. 40...50...60...’Go!’ Brakes!Brakes!Brakes! I knew I should have gone to Meineke. Bobby! Are you awake? He’s breathing so let’s take a look at the stopwatch. Wow. It didn’t move. Once again, science triumphs over superstition! ‘Is the speed of light constant?’ The answer is no...it’s faster if you click on the brights. I think that Bobby would prefer that you send donations to The Mr. Science Show in lieu of flowers for his hospital room.
Not at all ...light is just something that is hitting the barrier...light is the bug hitting the windshield
Thought experiment to see the "speed" barrier... go in a circle faster and faster... how fast to you have to go to catch you self or even pass your self?... that not a trick question... you think about in and you see all the issues
I’ll wait and see. Too many times we have been disappointed by such claims.
Being a genius does not mean that you can prove Einstein was wrong.
Well for one counter-example, Tchaikovsky hated math and was very bad at it.
>> Well for one counter-example, Tchaikovsky hated math and was very bad at it.
An outstanding counter-example.
I don’t care much for the mechanical, tedious nature of Mozart and Bach whom I presume were proficient in math.
Nothing like peer review.
I think the alternative would be irrelativity.
Half the time I think these alleged math geniuses are pampered nuts, half the time I think they’re simply over-hyped freak shows, and half the time I think they’re gifts from God.
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