12 year old develops his own theory of relativity

xkylex14 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:39 am

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'.

source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ivity.html

That's just insane...

heroo · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 6618 **Location:**

annoying kid.

McLovin1t · **Joined:** Apr 2008 **Posts:** 1825 **Location:**

Wow. Give him a break, he's 12 and he is (going to be) more successful than you or I will ever be.

Toshiharu · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4222 **Location:** Nowhere

This is a kid I'm jealous of.

penfold1992 · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 4060 **Location:**

i just hope his parents didnt push him...

Hapjap · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:35 am

penfold1992 wrote:

i just hope his parents didnt push him...

no apparently the mother failed at math and said that it couldn't have come from her Lol.

Infernatil · **Joined:** Feb 2010 **Posts:** 4 **Location:**

Kill him before he sets the basic formula for something more lethal and destructive than a nuclear bomb

[SD]Master_Wong · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:29 am

He is going to be on the news for a while then literally drop off radar thats when he is working for the governement (im not saying its a conspircy just saying)

Brago · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:44 am

He musta seen the social network and thought it was cool to write formulas on windows.

But really, 170 IQ, thats pretty neat, sign this kid up for our military commander and let him dominate china already. kthx

John_Doe · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 2094 **Location:**

[SD]Master_Wong wrote:

He is going to be on the news for a while then literally drop off radar thats when he is working for the governement (im not saying its a conspircy just saying)

+1
O.O the government's gonna use him to created a supercomputer called "skynet" blahblahblahblah matrix/zombie/robot apocalypse.

IceCrash · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:15 am

McLovin1t wrote:

Wow. Give him a break, he's 12 and he is (going to be) more successful than you or I will ever be.

you really have no clue about what really is to be successful in life xD

Anyways, hope this kid has some real brain and, if he wants to do something, do it for people's good, not for the sake of just discovering shit, wich is stupid and dangerous.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Quote:

Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein -

Holy shit
Well, a IQ tests only measure how good you are at IQ tests.. They don't measure how intelligent you are in overall. lulz
Btw: high IQ's don't mean everything.

iGod · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 3728 **Location:**

*BlackFox wrote:

Quote:

Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein -

Holy shit
Well, a IQ tests only measure how good you are at IQ tests.. They don't measure how intelligent you are in overall. lulz
Btw: high IQ's don't mean everything.

"High IQ" didn't stop me from failing 11th grade and having overall shitty grades throughout high school, making a million bad decisions during life etc etc.

But at least I wasn't a Farking annoying kid.

Miguez · **Joined:** Nov 2008 **Posts:** 5003 **Location:**

Curious about what is going to happen.

Love · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 5336 **Location:**

Good for him, if he ends up creating something positive for society I will be appreciative of his gifts.

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

Being genius is a gift.... Its not earned... So there is no need for anyone to envy or be jealous of someone that is a genius. I wish the kid all the best.

[SD]Master_Wong · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:49 pm

BuDo wrote:

Being genius is a gift.... Its not earned... So there is no need for anyone to envy or be jealous of someone that is a genius. I wish the kid all the best.

its stil earned you cant just sit in a blank room and be a genius you need to work for it just he finds it easier to understand whats been taught to him and may or may not learn at a vastly greater pace (this is likely) but considering that he is likly to have a social defect and may find it hard to blend into a normal crowd

Macsnow · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 1243 **Location:** Chair.

McLovin1t wrote:

Wow. Give him a break, he's 12 and he is (going to be) more successful than you or I will ever be.

IceCrash wrote:

you really have no clue about what really is to be successful in life

Also, even if he is a million times more successful, that doesn't mean he'll be happier than anyone else.

[SD]Master_Wong · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:02 pm

Macsnow wrote:

McLovin1t wrote:

Wow. Give him a break, he's 12 and he is (going to be) more successful than you or I will ever be.

IceCrash wrote:

you really have no clue about what really is to be successful in life

Also, even if he is a million times more successful, that doesn't mean he'll be happier than anyone else.

are you trying to say been unsuccessful and likly poor is a better way to gain happiness in life?

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

Makes me think of a paper I wrote for my developmental psychology class on how IQ testing is not an accurate, and even considered useless, tool in certain settings. It's impossible to set a standard on how intelligent people are based on a set criteria. If you ask someone who majors in math about medical problems, he probably won't have a clue on how to answer the majority of the questions - and vice versa. Although I don't mean to discredit the fact that the child does have an incredible skill for grasping math-related concepts.

If there's ever a genius that I truly envy, it would be Mozart.

apan · **Joined:** Feb 2009 **Posts:** 958 **Location:**

I wanted to be amazed. But I just dont, ...care.

Doron · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:45 pm

So.....

Applause?

IceCrash · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:17 pm

being successful = being happy

Doron · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:57 pm

Btw at first I could've sworn the first sentence started with "12 year-old child pornography"

McLovin1t · **Joined:** Apr 2008 **Posts:** 1825 **Location:**

IceCrash wrote:

McLovin1t wrote:

Wow. Give him a break, he's 12 and he is (going to be) more successful than you or I will ever be.

you really have no clue about what really is to be successful in life xD

Anyways, hope this kid has some real brain and, if he wants to do something, do it for people's good, not for the sake of just discovering shit, wich is stupid and dangerous.

You trollin? Discovering shit is dangerous? Look at the atom bomb discovery, saved millions of lives (true, look it up if you want?) Look at people using the Hadron collider, discovering is not dangerous, let this kid do what he wants.
My definition of being successful will never = yours, so don't objectify a clearly subjective idea. Hopefully one day he will discover stuff that will help us understand the physical world.

inky wrote:

Makes me think of a paper I wrote for my developmental psychology class on how IQ testing is not an accurate, and even considered useless, tool in certain settings. It's impossible to set a standard on how intelligent people are based on a set criteria. If you ask someone who majors in math about medical problems, he probably won't have a clue on how to answer the majority of the questions - and vice versa. Although I don't mean to discredit the fact that the child does have an incredible skill for grasping math-related concepts.

If there's ever a genius that I truly envy, it would be Mozart.

You do realize an IQ that high at a young age is quite a strong indicator of intelligence, right? Intelligent =/= knowledgeable, like you said with the pre-med v. math student. Just because he doesn't answer a question doesn't mean he isn't smart. IQ testing is NOWHERE NEAR useless, and an IQ of 170 is incredibly accurate to say this kid is brilliant and hopefully he will figure out some cool stuff.

Doppleganger · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:14 pm

His mom runs his youtube account and there was a 29min documentary they had made and in that video he rips into Stephen hawking telling him he is wrong. He is being raised as an evangelical.

Vaya · **Joined:** May 2009 **Posts:** 1848 **Location:**

In Beautiful Mind he was doing math on the window
Same in The Social Network
and this little guy is also doing math on the window
weird :/

Doron · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:32 pm

Hold it McLovin,

The Atom Bomb saved people?

Where/when? Maybe I just lack lessons in history but.. I believe they only kill....

Miguez · **Joined:** Nov 2008 **Posts:** 5003 **Location:**

McLovin1t wrote:

IceCrash wrote:

McLovin1t wrote:

Wow. Give him a break, he's 12 and he is (going to be) more successful than you or I will ever be.

you really have no clue about what really is to be successful in life xD

Anyways, hope this kid has some real brain and, if he wants to do something, do it for people's good, not for the sake of just discovering shit, wich is stupid and dangerous.

You trollin? Discovering shit is dangerous? Look at the atom bomb discovery, saved millions of lives (true, look it up if you want?) Look at people using the Hadron collider, discovering is not dangerous, let this kid do what he wants.
My definition of being successful will never = yours, so don't objectify a clearly subjective idea. Hopefully one day he will discover stuff that will help us understand the physical world.

inky wrote:

Makes me think of a paper I wrote for my developmental psychology class on how IQ testing is not an accurate, and even considered useless, tool in certain settings. It's impossible to set a standard on how intelligent people are based on a set criteria. If you ask someone who majors in math about medical problems, he probably won't have a clue on how to answer the majority of the questions - and vice versa. Although I don't mean to discredit the fact that the child does have an incredible skill for grasping math-related concepts.

If there's ever a genius that I truly envy, it would be Mozart.

You do realize an IQ that high at a young age is quite a strong indicator of intelligence, right? Intelligent =/= knowledgeable, like you said with the pre-med v. math student. Just because he doesn't answer a question doesn't mean he isn't smart. IQ testing is NOWHERE NEAR useless, and an IQ of 170 is incredibly accurate to say this kid is brilliant and hopefully he will figure out some cool stuff.

Lol.

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

Doron wrote:

Hold it McLovin,

The Atom Bomb saved people?

Where/when? Maybe I just lack lessons in history but.. I believe they only kill....

Exactly what i thought. Think about how many people two bombs have already killed.

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