Posted on 03/27/2011 9:16:23 PM PDT by TigerClaws
At 12-years-old, Jacob Barnett is a genius. He’s already in college, his IQ is higher than Einstein’s, and for fun he‘s working on an expanded version of that man’s theory of relativity. So far, the signs are good. Professors are astounded. So what else does a boy genius with vast brilliance do in his free time? Disprove the big bang, of course.
Original Story is below:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011103200369
When Jacob Barnett first learned about the Schrödinger equation for quantum mechanics, he could hardly contain himself.
For three straight days, his little brain buzzed with mathematical functions.
From within his 12-year-old, mildly autistic mind, there gradually flowed long strings of pluses, minuses, funky letters and upside-down triangles -- a tapestry of complicated symbols that few can understand.
He grabbed his pencil and filled every sheet of paper before grabbing a marker and filling up a dry erase board that hangs in his bedroom. With a single-minded obsession, he kept on, eventually marking up every window in the home.
Strange, say some.
Genius, say others.
But entirely normal for Jacob, a child prodigy who used to crunch his cereal while calculating the volume of the cereal box in his head.
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"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Distance itself is not uniquely defined on the cosmic scale. How could it be?
Once again, executive fiat, just as God commanded the earth to bring forth grass.
Did you ever have a sense of humor?
Yes, Obama is Awesome! ;)
What’s so funny about executive fiat?
Einstein used his thought experiment to refute Newton - the workman falling from the roof.
Then the workman, falling, with an elevator box around him -weightless as long as the roof is infinitely high off the ground.
Einstein argued that Gravity was a push, and then used it to speculate that light bends as it comes near dense objects. He got an astronomer from the Lick Observatory to photograph a total eclipse of the sun. He speculated you would be able to see stars that OUGHT to have been occluded by the sun/moon combo at the edge of the eclipse - as if the star were NEXT to the eclipse at the time, and not in front of it.
He came up with General Relativity in 1911, and it took until almost 1918 to prove it. Took him that long to get the picture of the eclipse.
hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon---Jacob Barnett
If you could take the entire planet, sort it out into its various elements into piles, you’d have the following: 32% iron, 30% oxygen, 15% silicon, 14% magnesium, 3% sulfur, 2% nickel, and then much smaller piles of calcium, aluminum, and other trace elements.---What Is The Earth Made Of
Carbon is a trace element, and yet the "genius" says the Earth is "made mostly of carbon".
I think the dumpsters here are the journalists, who just pass on anything they're told like the ignoramus dufuses they are. Unquestioning. Uncritical. Unknowing. Unthinking.
I certainly feel that pain...
that’s as dumb as a screen door on a battleship...
It's certainly interesting to consider that autism might actually be an evolutionary step forward. (To avoid any "Creationism/Evolution" debates, I'm referring to this an an intra-species evolution, as in natural selection.)
We don't know what causes autism, but it seems to be more prevalent in children whose parents both have high IQs. While not every autistic child is a "prodigy" or a "savant", those tendencies do seem to be considerably more common among the autistic than among the "neurotypical".
What we may be seeing is the rise of essentially a specialized form of human being, often called an "expert" or a "talent" in science fiction literature. Most humans are generalists -- we learn well about a broad base of topics, better in some than others, but it is relatively easy for us to apply or leverage that knowledge in other areas. The autistic learn and comprehend differently, often being very narrowly focused in a single subject area (math, music, art, etc.).
The real challenge may actually not be how to "mainstream" the autistic, but for us as a whole to learn how to teach them to allow them to reach their own, albeit more specialized, potential.
I study this stuff and have for several decades. I agree with your assessment in this post.
dont forget: newspapers are written so that they can be understood by government school graduates. I.e. on a 3rd grade reading level...
Actually, the answer is "The egg."
There were dinosaurs and fish around, laying eggs, before there were ever any chickens.
;^)
The rooster?
Thank you.
Regardless of what the correct answer is, there are still the questions of -
What was there before the "Big Bang"?
Where did all the material come from that existed within the pre- "Big Bang" mass?
And who or what made it "Bang"?
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