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Genius at Work (Big Bang Theory Disproven by 12-year-old boy)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-beautiful-mind-12-year-old-boy-genius-sets-out-to-disprove-big-bang/ ^

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bigbangtheory; childprodigy; einstein; genius; intelligence; jacobbarnett; prodigy; stringtheory
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To: TigerClaws

I hope he never looses his way of explaining things.

I find it thinkable.


41 posted on 03/27/2011 10:22:19 PM PDT by Puckster
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To: LetMarch

Actually, it would have been the egg first.

What laid the egg didn’t have to be a chicken, because the theory of evolution allows for slight changes between generations.

So what laid the egg wasn’t quite a chicken, but what came from that egg was a fully formed chicken.


42 posted on 03/27/2011 10:23:15 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: null and void; kbennkc; Inyo-Mono
"Thought is like a little boat upon the sea." ~ D.L.

43 posted on 03/27/2011 10:23:26 PM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: Crucial

>> What makes so many presume that the IQ of such men could be accurately gauged?

I believe creativity is the unsung hero in the IQ space. And without a legacy of effort by others who’ve failed would the products of rewarded IQ be possible. Not to steal the well deserved thunder from great minds, but is IQ ever measured in a vacuum free of knowledge?


44 posted on 03/27/2011 10:26:23 PM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: TigerClaws

This article is nice.

But that boy still isn’t smarter than 0bama.

/sarc


45 posted on 03/27/2011 10:28:18 PM PDT by LyinLibs
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To: Falconspeed

“Impossible. The Dopler effect proves the existence of an infinitely dense singularity... Period.”

People like you scare me, and it’s not because of your brilliance.


46 posted on 03/27/2011 10:28:37 PM PDT by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

savant?


47 posted on 03/27/2011 10:40:39 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: djf

Add in all the new talk about dark matter and dark energy. Hubble interpreted redshift as an indication of an expanding universe because he had no choice—we had discarded the notion of ether. With the inclusion of matter and energy we cannot se, however, I wonder if we have to begin to question how we interpret redshift: is it merely a Doppler effect, or an interaction with intervening dark matter or dark energy? Put another way, is it just a form of scattering or something similar, and only an indicator of distance? That would have profound implications for the size or age of the universe. The second people started talking about dark matter as if it exists a lot of alarm bells startted going off in my head—space would no longer be empty, and it was the emptiness that mandated an expanding universe and a Big Bang.


48 posted on 03/27/2011 10:43:42 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: 1scrappymom
They have trouble understanding body language, facial expresssions and common phrases like “madder than a wet hen” They will ask why would a hen be wet? Will that make them mad? Why would you make a hen mad?”

Are you sure it's a case of "not understanding" or is it actual;y being too analytical and having too much common sense?

Most "common phrases" do not ever make literal sense. They're goofball sayings based on ignorance. Often, where I work, we sarcastically bug each other when one of us uses and "old school" saying like that. We ask playfully common sense questions like you've posited until one of us gives up in defeat. It's especially fun to do it to someone who doesn't even get the saying or phrase correct in the first place.
49 posted on 03/27/2011 10:44:05 PM PDT by brent13a (You're a Great American! NO you're a Great American! NO NO NO YOU'RE a Great American! Nooo.....WTF?)
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To: sinanju

bump thread for later


50 posted on 03/27/2011 10:44:07 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (Public Service Announcement. As of 3/28/11, 589 days 'til we take out the trash. (November 6 2012))
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To: Inyo-Mono

Even after 40+ years of listening to Donovan’s songs, I still don’t understand them.

That’s a good sign.


51 posted on 03/27/2011 10:46:24 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: Puckster
His contention was the oddest people on the planet were........drummers

Never heard that expressed before, but the ones I've known
were always a little different, but not as demonstrative as
other people.

52 posted on 03/27/2011 10:53:17 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: LyinLibs

Yer right. Ask any Sycacuse Alumni.


53 posted on 03/27/2011 10:53:24 PM PDT by Avery Iota Kracker (He hate me.)
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To: Windcatcher

Here is my interpretation.

The big bang didn’t “happen”.
The big bang is “happening”.

I spent a few years studying universal constants and their values and relationships and came up with an equation that describes universal expansion. My conclusion was that even though the universe is gaining mass (linearly with the time), it will basically end up kind of evaporating because the density of the universe is always going down.

The way out of it, at least in my theory, is that we have described gravity all wrong. Gravity is not two pieces of mass being “attracted” together.
Gravity is the result of empty space PUSHING the mass together.

There are visual aids and math I could use to show what I mean, but it’s rather complex and I don’t have the time right now.

There WILL be a revolution in physics. And it is totally understandable that many who have lived their entire lives learning the orthodox views (QM and Relativity) will fight tooth and nail to hang on to those positions.

Exciting times.


54 posted on 03/27/2011 10:55:53 PM PDT by djf (Dems and liberals: Let's redefine "marriage". We already redefined "natural born citizen".)
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To: TigerClaws

He’s right. There was no “big bang.” Such an explosion would have created radial expansion motion, not the rotational and orbiting motion that we observe. But hey I’m a theologian, not a cosmological physicist.


55 posted on 03/27/2011 10:57:49 PM PDT by Guyin4Os (A messianic ger-tsedek)
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To: TigerClaws

ping


56 posted on 03/27/2011 11:01:59 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Puckster

except for Karen Carpenter. They shoulda left her with the drums where she belonged and where she wanted to be.


57 posted on 03/27/2011 11:07:23 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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To: Guyin4Os

Ever fire a bullet into ice? It spins like a top. Fire a superheated little, dense particle into supercold...it spins. Bang...spin..spiral. Spinning as it exploded. And the shockwave from that explosion is still pushing this universe forward.


58 posted on 03/27/2011 11:08:29 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Note: I do NOT capitalize anything I don't respect...like obama and/or islam...but I repeat myself.)
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To: brent13a

if i worked at your place, i would litigate, for the resulting trauma.


59 posted on 03/27/2011 11:11:11 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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To: Guyin4Os

soem daze i am amazed at the schmart people here in Freeper. Then 5 minutes later, i am amazed at some incomparable stooge.


60 posted on 03/27/2011 11:15:04 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (Palin '12 begins in '11. In western New Hampshire pour moi.)
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