Mar 30
A 12 year old is taking on the Big Bang theory:
"Because of that," he continued, "that means that the world would have never been created because none of the carbon would have been given 7 billion years to fuse together. We’d have to be 21 billion years old . . . and that would just screw everything up."
So, we had to ask.
If not the big bang, then how did the universe come about?
"I’m still working on that," he said. "I have an idea, but . . . I’m still working out the details."
Read the article. It is interesting on many levels. And watch his YouTube videos teaching Calculus with integration by parts and trig substitution. Not so much to get calculus, but to get a sense of how otherwise normal he is.
April 17th, 2011 at 9:00 am
O.K., I can’t find the link to the article mentioned here, but I did watch the video, and wow, am I impressed! Amazing that a 12 year old kid has a grasp on that kind of math, and is able to explain it the way he does. I admit, I really didn’t follow it, but then again, math was never my forte.
I bet he was home schooled, because I can’t imagine a public school student being that astute at that age. BTW, watching that dog play outside the window while the boy is writing his equations is hilarious. Added a sense of levity to an otherwise serious presentation.
April 17th, 2011 at 9:13 am
He went to school but basically was past it when e got there. He taught himself the lingo, because he already fundamentally understood it. The normalcy of the dog is a funny contradiction.
It is people like this that will someday just “know”how to change everything with some stupendous scientific advance. I wonder I’d college will stunt him.
April 17th, 2011 at 9:32 am
Just a super smart kid I guess! He’s way ahead of where I ever got in math, and I did go to college. Hardest class I ever took was statistics, and I thought I was going to die. Some people just have the abilities without trying too hard, but I was never one of them. No doubt this boy will go far in whatever he decides to do.