12-year-old takes aim at Einstein's theories
 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/jacob-barnett-12-year-old_n_841577.html

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/space/6874-boy-genius-sets-out-to-disprove-big-bang-theory

Damn young whippersnapper...

All I know is at the age of 12, I was still trying to figure out "new math" (and when I was 12, in 1962, it really was "new math", not the old style 'rithmetic we had been taught up until that point)

I think I got a headache :dead:

Hmm...

I suspect some will be watching his career with great interest.

it seems he's on the wrong side of the argument.

:hmmm:

12 year old in college. I feel sorry for him. What kind of social and emotional development can this kid have? And the Aspergers does not help.

Kinda sad actually. I wish him the best of luck in life, I fear he will need it.

I use my Aspergers on video games and under achieve in school :D

I like mine roasted with garlic. :D

Autiosm is not all the same. If he really is autistic, it depends, and eventually you cannot judge social factors and their meaning for him the same way you judge them for you and me.

I admit that I always was fascinated by Autism in my psychology years. And I am not so certain like the mainstream that we really should call all forms and grades of it as a deviation in the meaning of "illness". I think it is possible that such people, at least some of them, are not more or less sick than a bnat that lives in a world it perceives by very different standards of experience - or is ultrasonic orientation in an environment a disease now? Autistic people do not so much soffer from the reality context - as they perceive it - they are live in. They seem to suffer more from us "normnal" peoples's colliding and contradicting behavior based on our, different reality perception.

Also, autism is more widespread than many people know, and it has many different shades and grades. I suspect, for example, that I also feature autistic characteristics myself, in my social behavior. And I hold every bet that quite some people in this forum also qualify for a decription of being autistic to some degree. Some psychologists estimate that up to 15% of the population may be autistic in some way.

If the video tells me one thing, that not so much that he is autiostic, but that he has a very big ego and boasts with self-confidence. :up: At least on the surface. What it looks like inside of somebody - is always a different thing, isn't it.

With some fava beans and a nice chianti?

In some cases, leads like this to the protected identity of the individual, and with hindsight that piece, I feel sorry for him for several reasons, an IQ which is for most people, not manageable and along the way, he can certainly get the backing that required, so that he becomes part of us all.

The main characteristic of prodigies is that they are extremely good at learning, especially rote learning, which makes them academically very fast up to about post-grad level. After that they almost invariably peter out, when they have to start applying that learning to innovative thinking.

Not that would be gross. Just served on the side with a nice steak and a good Barossa Shiraz.

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/images/...ted-garlic.jpg

What would you like to drink?