Eight-year-old physics genius enters university

Korea Herald ^ | 2005-11-05 | Hwang Si-young

[Fintan]

 

Big deal.

[sourcery]

Intellectually, Osment can't hold a candle to Greg Smith:

[DoughtyOne]

True enough, and my observation may ven be proof of that. Heh heh heh... Take care.

[sparkomatic]

Clever. I understand binary. I'm a computer programmer. I've been at it for about 00001001 years.

[cricket]

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

. . .was thinking the same. . .

[Gava]

Greg Smith PhD, EmpW

EmpW= Emperor of the world

...and probably of Mars too

[SauronOfMordor]

You cannot force a child like that to play like a typical child, not without a bad reaction. They will close down even more to what you would consider normalcy

It would be like sticking a "normal" kid with a group of Downs Syndrome kids, and expecting him to act like them

Visualize living in a world where mental retardation was the "norm", and you'll start to understand why so many child geniuses don't turn out so well

[RightWhale]

Can he find meaning in high-level German sentences?

[P-Marlowe]

Visualize living in a world where mental retardation was the "norm",

You mean like living in a blue state?

[eeriegeno]

Yoo-geun's dream is to make flying cars

It seems to me that a physics genius would dream of a higher goal? Maybe like correcting the quantum theory? Assuming he knows what that is????????

[eeriegeno]

Yoo-geun's dream is to make flying cars

BTW, we already have flying cars, their called 'airplanes'.......

[Revolting cat!]

Man, sorority chicks will love the little guy. He'll get laid at nine!

[Paulus Invictus]

Prodigy schools? Oh, like those we have (sarcasm). It won't be long before the Orientals display their advances in education in real and lasting ways, while the NEA et al and the Dept. of Education (mis-named) struggle along with failing, socialist schools and dumb kids. Maybe we could bring the Korean kid to MIT to help them along with physics and math.

[Gava]

He's not a genius yet, just very very good at physics problems and other related subjects. Becoming a genius involves alot of emotional and spiritual maturity. It also helps to be a bit crazy.

From the looks of things, he's a typical 8 year old with an atypical frontal lobe.