"His contention was the oddest people on the planet were........drummers."
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 ...
Being a theologian, why do you limit a limitless G-d to the here and now? How many universes were there before this one, and how many after?
Not really sure what version of the Big Bang he’s working with.
My understanding of the theory is that primarily only hydrogen was created in the BB, with the heavier elements coming much later from supernovae.
Not saying he’s wrong, I’m just not following what he’s doing.
Why did you stop dancing?
Very smart kid, amazingly smart, but still a kid. I would guess all his duckies aren't all in a row yet. That'll come if he doesn't burn out.
>> his IQ is higher than Einstein’s
Yeah, but what about Lorentz’ IQ?
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Lorenz? What about Gauss?
“From within his 12-year-old, mildly autistic mind,....”
Maybe autistic — maybe just trying desperately to tune out all the (relatively) moronic bozos around him.
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Lol!
I’ve gotten the impression that “dark matter” is the astrophysical equivalent of “here there be dragons.”
His book
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I remember seeing this guy on television years ago. I thought him a bit eccentric, but his theory was interesting, to say the least.
As for the "not pulling" thing, why do items accelerate towards each other once they are gravitically trapped? Wouldn't the push remain steady, rather than increase with narrowing distance?
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Yeah, she wouldn’t have had to starved herself to stay thin.....drums are a good work out.....however, their music was a little subdued to be that much of a workout.
Just show me the disproved part!!!!!
It’s a reasonable supposition that most non-water-dwelling animals (e.g. a hen but not a duck) would not appreciate a sudden involuntary soaking. There are exceptions of course. This is a case of missing the generalities for the specifics.
The supposed dark matter stuff does seem to behave like what it’s claimed to be, for example make passing light bend and exert a pull upon surrounding non-dark matter, while not interacting directly with light.
The question I’d want to ask is: how can we get any of that stuff here on this earth? What would it be like to handle it?
"His contention was the oddest people on the planet were........drummers."
Read in detail....later.
Primarily I think gravity is a local phenomena. And when I say local, I mean local in terms of the scale of the universe.
It’s very easy to see that whatever the strength of gravity there is, it can easily over distance get overwhelmed by the background quantum field.
You know what it means when someone describes the “surface tension” of a fluid like water if you are trying to float a needle or something on it.
Take that concept and stretch it to 3 dimensions and you see how gravity is related to the “surface tension” of space.
“Hugh Ross will be terribly disappointed.”
LOL
He was the Steinfield of his era.
Steinfield admits that he makes his living of a TV show about nothing...
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