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Subject:  Jacob Barnett's Counter-Einsteinic Theory Etc

"In some ways, Jacob Barnett is just like any other 12-year-old kid. He plays Guitar Hero, shoots hoops with his friends, and has a platonic girlfriend."

I may be wrong, but I do believe that Jake is a prodigy and a breakthrough since Einstein --- and is claimed by scientists as probably better than Einstein himself.  If this is all true, I am glad to witness this phenomenon at this stage in my life.

Thoughts?

Meanwhile, enjoy .....

Jacob "Jake" Barnett 12 year old GENIUS

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit

I wonder who tested his IQ to be 170...that seems a bit low. I read an article about him as well. Can you imagine if he walked into a Quantum Mechanics lecture at some other University, where not as many people know about him, and just started lecturing? That would be something.

all i can say is i hope this kid doesn't play redemption or we're all toast lol

Naaaa.  You could get him to go cross-eyed and lie in a fetal position if you just explain "cannot be prevented" to him.

First of all about the IQ thing, IQ is more than just math skills, he may be good at math and physics (at least ability, he doesn't have the experience as major physicists however) but he may not be very good at other subjects.

Also I don't really know much about him, but the video on the speed of light thing really doesn't make much sense, since it isn't just a theoretical idea that c is the upper speed limit, its been verified by experiments time and time and time again in particle accelerators.

But that being said he does look like he could make a very good theoretical physicist eventually.

(and in case you are wondering I'm actually majoring in physics in university so I did understand what he was talking about in the videos, and it sounds fairly good)