Posted on 11/06/2005 11:06:05 AM PST by sourcery
He surprised professors by explaining the Schroedinger equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum mechanics.
With this:
The interview was conducted mainly with the senior Song since Yoo-geun is lacking in his ability to communicate with adults.
I think I saw this episode of the X-Files. The problem will be keeping the aliens from taking him back to their own planet.
Burn out by age 15. Suicide by 21.
Then he figures out that a black whole is 6 months from eating us?
That's odd. I've always thought of it as being equivalent to Newton's first law. Both are essentially statements of conservation of energy.
I'm ashamed of this board. I thought by now there would be a posted picture of George Jetson's family car.
"He surprised professors by explaining the Schroedinger equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum mechanics."
Hope he doesn't take up poker, or we're all finished!
That's an interesting point. I can understand the reasoning behind a comment like that.
My perception would be that people who are incredibly bright, off the scale so to speak, would be harder to hide than $100 million dollars under your mattress.
The one possiblity I could agree with though, would be that proper diagnosis might be a problem. So might sanity. So might channeling the benefits of such a mind into a complimentary vs destructive force.
People with such incredible briliance, see scientific things clearly, like you and I see a road sign clearly. I'm not sure they are as able to see morality issues with that same clarity. I'm not trying to dump on the Einstine Hawkings people. I'm actually talking about people that could surpase them, and I do think they are out there.
It's kindof hard to address this issue without acting like these folks are monsters. That's not what I'm trying to intimate. Socially, the extremely brilliant are sometimes simply unable to cope with social performance.
That these parents seem to have brought this kid to the place he's at without destroying him, or allowing society to destroy him is rather remarkable IMO.
The study of this dynamic is an interesting field IMO. Hope I've conveyed some rationality to this. It's kindof a tough topic to touch on without sounding like you've gone off the deep end.
IMO, you're referencing a work ethic without intentionally doing so. At the present time some Asians seem to put their noses to the grind-stone as well as anyone on the planet. The results speak for themselves.
Einstine, Hawkings, other brilliant minds pop up here and there and will continue to do so.
I am inspired by the savant mind at times. Some of those people are very gifted in narrowly focused areas. I sometimes wonder if we haven't ignored what might be an incredible resource if channeled properly.
Reminds me of the movie Parenthood. The little girl is a genius, and is completely freaked out from something as simple as the old "sliding thumb" trick.
At last, a physicist who'll understand man's true place in the order of the universe: we're here to drive the flying cars!
I've always held that there are 3 kinds of people in this world - those that can do math and those that can't.
I was one of those!
As long as that flying car does the quater-mile in less than 12 seconds and gets better than a hundred miles to the gallon.
Had a stastics class where the instructor tried to prove that 2+2=5 but no one caught him since he went so fast and used 2 blackboards, erasing the first one to finish the problem thereby erasing where he had conned us!
He also stated on the first day of class that anyone writing or uttering the word stastics in the class would automaticly fail and that the class was to be known as how to lie with figures and how to make figures lie.
My parents were convinced I skipped several of grades, even though I attended nine months for each of them. Heh heh heh...
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