[sourcery]

Ping

[RockinRight]

I hope Kim Jong-Il doesn't get a hold of this kid...

[spetznaz]

Good for him. I pray he goes far.

[Yaelle]

You cannot really hold a genius back. The simply don't play like other kids. Even when you send them outside to play a little, they will be looking at things and doing things differently. They will NOT fit in socially AT ALL with their "peers." Let him study. He is happy.

[Maynerd]

Let's hope the media backs off and gives this kid some space. I wish he'd focus on fusion energy so we could wall off the middle east.

[saganite]

So he gets his PhD at 10, overthrows Einstein's theory of relativity at 14, has his super string car up and running at 18, gets his Nobel at 20, then what?

Actually, from what I read, most of these child geniuses are totally burnt out by the time they're 20 and are never heard from again. The exceptions seem to be in the world of music for some reason.

[RouxStir]

"The interview was conducted mainly with the senior Song since Yoo-geun is lacking in his ability to communicate with adults."

My cat's genius exceeds that of Einstein.....but unfortunately he is lacking in his abililty to communicate with humans.

[DoughtyOne]

There's something about the child prodigy that I find very fascinating. My hope for such kids is that they are nurtured as much as possible and allowed to progress as best they can. I don't believe there is a perfect way to achieve this.

[Political Junkie Too]

Eight-year-old physics genius enters university

Did they ask him yet about how often he thinks about touching his private parts?

-PJ

[operation clinton cleanup]

In March this year, he went to an elementary school but after a few days said he didn't feel suited to the school system.

I felt the same way, but my parents stifled my creativity and forced me to go through he whole 12 year thing.

[TN4Liberty]

I can't square this:

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.

[birbear]

Burn out by age 15. Suicide by 21.

[Physicist]

Experts say the equation, proposed by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schroedinger in 1925, plays a role analogous to Newton's second law in classical mechanics.

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.

[sparkomatic]

I'm ashamed of this board. I thought by now there would be a posted picture of George Jetson's family car.

[kingu]

The only thing I found curious in the whole article...how many languages does he speak/read? Not that this is an incredible hold back, not anymore, but it was something that is usually listed in such articles.

As for his future.. I'll go with another poster who would like to see him work on fusion reactors rather than flying cars. Especially after watching a two-car collision on the freeway yesterday in the mirror.

[Left2Right]

"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!

[mrsmith]

"Yoo-geun's dream is to make flying cars"

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!

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Once we took Yoo-geun to a zoo. There he was looking at animals for four and a half hours straight. It was when he was three or four years old."

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This had me scratching my head. Isn't looking at animals for several hours exactly what children are expected to do at the zoo?

[ConvienentCharade]

Poor Kid will probably burn out at 14.

[billybudd]

Yoo-geun's dream is to make flying cars, based on the superstring theory

What the heck does building flying cars have to do with superstring theory? Sounds like some reporterspeak gee-wiz retardification.