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chilliwilli 03-29-2011 01:01 AM

12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity
 
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics.

Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.

The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week, is now tutoring fellow college classmates after hours.

And now Jake has embarked on his most ambitious project yet - his own 'expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity'.

His mother, not sure if her child was talking nonsense or genius, sent a video of his theory to the renowned Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University...

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Viperfreak2 03-29-2011 08:42 AM

Can this human please explain what all that nonsense means to making life better on the planet Earth?

Jordo 03-29-2011 08:48 AM

We are all to simple to understand! I envey.

Viperfreak2 03-29-2011 08:50 AM

Here is someone else with a college degree:

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chilliwilli 03-29-2011 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viperfreak2
Can this human please explain what all that nonsense means to making life better on the planet Earth?

I for one, can only hope that his gift will be used for the good of mankind...perhaps developing cures instead of weapons, as a start.


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