12 Year old Astrophysics Prodigy Welcome Back Einstein!

**Ne-yo** · 03-29-2011 09:14 PM

Taken from: new.yahoo.com

Jacob Barnett, who has an IQ of 170, began solving 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles at the age of 3, not long after he'd been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. A few years later, he taught himself calculus, algebra, and geometry in two weeks. By 8, he had left high school, and is currently taking college-level advanced astrophysics classes—while tutoring his older classmates. And he's being recruited for a paid researcher job by Indiana University.

Now, he's at work on a theory that challenges the Big Bang—the prevailing explanation among scientists for how the universe came about. It's not clear how developed it is, but experts say he's asking the right questions.
The theory that he's working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics.

Another interesting video on Jake which has a very interesting question regarding Einstein's theory.

//video.yahoo.com/watch/8796685/24707163

This kid is wicked smaht!

**Raphael** · 03-29-2011 09:35 PM

He's 8 years old and he's already challenging the Big Bang theory.

**Descensus** · 03-29-2011 09:36 PM

Feynman + Einstein + steroids + crack = that kid.

**Raphael** · 03-29-2011 09:39 PM

If I was that smart, I would focus my attention on the stock market.

**Descensus** · 03-29-2011 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by Raphael

If I was that smart, I would focus my attention on the stock market.

If you're that smart, there's no need. You're set for life.

**Xei** · 03-29-2011 09:52 PM

If you're that smart, you realise there are greater pleasures and greater callings.

**Ne-yo** · 03-29-2011 09:59 PM

It's cool to see this kid, still doing typical 12 year old things also. He likes to watch the Disney Channel and kicks back on his 360 to play Halo. If I remember right, I believe I read somewhere that he plays classical music by memory.

**Marvo** · 03-29-2011 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

It's cool to see this kid, still doing typical 12 year old things ... kicks back on his 360 to play Halo.

dohoho

**Ne-yo** · 03-29-2011 10:28 PM

Funny coming from the grown man with my little pony in his signature.

I actually do kick back and play a little Halo every now and then. I play C.O.D. as well amongst other games. It's one of my favorite past times.

**cmind** · 03-29-2011 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by Xei

If you're that smart, you realise there are greater pleasures and greater callings.

How do you know?

**Descensus** · 03-29-2011 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by cmind

How do you know?

Xei is just that smart!

**cmind** · 03-29-2011 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by BLUELINE976

Xei is just that smart!

Evidently.

**MindGames** · 03-30-2011 03:53 AM

It's a matter of personal preference. I have found that generally smart people want to prove their intelligence and contribute to the greater good. However if one were even smarter, I think that they would do what they love (mathematical theories, rigorous discussions, etc) and also enjoy the other aspects of life, such as dating, traveling, and making loads of money.

**Alric** · 03-30-2011 05:56 AM

That or you work tirelessly on a problem that seems impossible, and nags at you day and night. Until you eventually figure it out, but then others look at it and they find the smallest of flaws in your idea, and you realize it is not 100% correct! So you again work and work on it more and more, but you never get that final answer, as one small thing always seems to elude you, and every time you figure out the problem, another one shows up some where else in your work. So you continue and continue until you start to go mad, but in your madness you find insight to great question that bring you praise and renown, but still that one small flaw nags at you, never ending. The one flaw that will always escape your grasp, that one flaw that you can never figure out, no matter how smart you are, no matter how long you work, it continues to escape you. If only you had a little more time, just a little more time, but there is never enough time. In the end, you die and your one true regret on your death bed is that the one piece of the universal puzzle has escaped your grasp forever.

**Raphael** · 03-30-2011 06:21 AM

Feeling a little cynical today?

That's how science works, luckily it's a team effort and everyone works off of each other in order to advance the...... I just lost my train of thought.

**cmind** · 03-30-2011 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by MindGames

I have found that generally smart people want to prove their intelligence

No, it's not the smart ones that do that...

**Marvo** · 03-31-2011 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Funny coming from the grown man with my little pony in his signature.

I actually do kick back and play a little Halo every now and then. I play C.O.D. as well amongst other games. It's one of my favorite past times.

I thought it was funny, because it's a very common stereotype that Halo players are little children who know nothing about real gaming. It's more of an in-joke for those that are active in the gaming communnity though :p

**DrunkenArse** · 03-31-2011 02:35 PM

Halo is the only video game I like. I like the colors and I love the physics. The more realistic games make it hard for me to see things.

**Ne-yo** · 03-31-2011 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by Marvo

I thought it was funny, because it's a very common stereotype that Halo players are little children who know nothing about real gaming. It's more of an in-joke for those that are active in the gaming communnity though :p

Yea I'm not active in the gaming community I guess. I thought that my little pony signature you have was funny because my daughter absolutely LOVES it and that's actually not a stereotype, all little girls really do like my little pony, just like you.

**Marvo** · 03-31-2011 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

Halo is the only video game I like. I like the colors and I love the physics. The more realistic games make it hard for me to see things.

By real gaming I meant real time strategy, Battlefield (before Bad Company), Half-Life and platformers, not the typical cowadoody mudon wofo crap. But that is subject for another discussion

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Yea I'm not active in the gaming community I guess. I thought that my little pony signature you have was funny because my daughter absolutely LOVES it and that's actually not a stereotype, all little girls really do like my little pony, just like you.

The new show, Friendship is Magic, actually has a fairly large adult following.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f35/my-lit...-magic-111508/

Read that!

**Ne-yo** · 03-31-2011 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by Marvo

The new show, Friendship is Magic, actually has a fairly large adult following.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f35/my-lit...-magic-111508/

Read that!

How about,

Ummmmmm .... No..lol.

**MindGames** · 03-31-2011 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by cmind

No, it's not the smart ones that do that...

Generally, I have found that they do, since I was one of the smart kids placed in accelerated learning programs in school.

**Jeff777** · 03-31-2011 07:45 PM

Great video. It's wonderful to see star children and rainbow children being reincarnated into this dimension from the advanced pleadian and lyran dimensions. They're preparing us for 2012.

**Xei** · 03-31-2011 10:13 PM

Seriously..?

**DrunkenArse** · 03-31-2011 10:18 PM

I know all sorts of people that believe exactly that crap. The funny thing is that none of them would be caught dead hanging out with this kid. They'd all tell him to "open his mind".