As a three year old with a passion for stars he went on a tour of the Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium at Butler University in Indianapolis.
This is the day his mother Kristin Barnett would never forget (via the IndyStar):
“We were in the crowd, just sitting, listening to this guy ask the crowd if anyone knew why the moons going around Mars were potato-shaped and not round.
Jacob raised his hand and said, ‘Excuse me, but what are the sizes of the moons around Mars?’ ”
The lecturer answered, and Jacob looked at him and said the “gravity of the planet . . . is so large that (the moon’s) gravity would not be able to pull it into a round shape.”
Silence.
Meet Jacob Barnett, now 12 years old, mildly autistic and with an IQ of 170 – higher than Stephen Hawkings and Albert Einstein. At age three, he was solving 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzles and now he’s already got a paid research position at Indiana University.
For a taster of this little man’s out-of-this-world genius, watch this (and enjoy his mother’s comedic timing). There are plenty more videos on his mother’s YouTube channel too.
Future Einstein if he continues this throught puberty.
Difficult to believe…astonishing!
Pity the kid for having a mother who just has to make a spectacle out of his brilliance.
If that kid doesn’t save us all, I’m going to steal his lunch money.
Engaging and well written article! This tops anything I have read lately on the subject at hand. I wonder if this’ll be posted on Twenty-First Tycoon. Although the site has awesome political, business, technology and real estate news, they could use more stuff like this. http://www.21Tycoon.com
dude’s obv a virgin
@Livefyre User You’re obviously a virgin too. idiot he’s 12.
@Stuart Shields @livefyre user haha that’s awesome
This planet needs alot more like him right now, and we had better start listening to them too. I know, stupid people will complain we are only listening to intelligent people, but since those folks are useless dolts anyway. I for one would like to welcome our new
Intelligent overlords.
IQ Is subjective to age.. if he’s at 170 at 12, and learns nothing ‘out of the ordinary’ between 12 and 13, his IQ won’t be 170 at 13.. more likely around 150.. and so on until around 25 or so.. Hyperlexia is a common problem with ‘parental pressured’ kids.. But there are limits.. 12 is just too early to see those limits.
@Livefyre User
Exactly. This pretty little angel is the naked example.
http://funnyandspicy.com/pretty-little-angel-masters-on-geographical-skill-may-god-bless-her
@Livefyre User While IQ is indeed a measure of mental age divided by actual age, it is a constant and will not vary more than a few points over the life of a person. This is assuming nothing cataclysmic happens to the kid. Intelligence and knowledge are two different things, and you’re confusing them.
Einsteins equation describes a theoretical universe what can only be contacted indirectly (through senses or instruments of some kind), while the universe which is directly experienced in the mind can easily comprehend faster than light travel and the density of light.
LS- fooking -D..
Make sure he receives no exposure to philosophy so he will obligingly enslave his intellect to the state like all good super-geniuses do.
He obviously didn’t get it from his mother… “need you guyses help? fail.
its not a fail, this kid is possibly the smartest person in the world at his age… when he was 2, he listened to a music box in a store, and when his mother was checking out at the register, he saw a piano, and played the song that was in the music box. it was Beethoven… he does lectures on the physics of supernovas, and understands the mathematics of dark-matter, and even has a couple theories that he can accurately back up disproving the big bang. when he was a baby, before he could talk he was trying to figure out the mathmatical equation to get the volume of a cereal box as he was playing with the cherios that he took out of it. his mom asking him for help isnt a fail. this kid was in college at 8 and lectures college classes. if anything is a fail, its your comment.
@jman81 and if your implying on her wording of ‘guyses’ that actually isnt bad english, but even though you think it is, your probably would say the same thing… to just say “need your guys help” would imply that he has a guy and she needs only his guy’s help… to say “need your guys’s help” would imply guys as in plural or more than one, and an apostrophe after the ‘s’ stating that since it is their help, they own it, thus making the punctuation ‘guys’s'… so the fail is still on you for stating that comment.
@jman81 Well, it’s no question what your IQ is… it’s right there in your name.
@jman81 Well, it’s no question what your IQ is… it’s right there in your name.
@Justin Otte I’d like to hear those theories about the Big Bang debunked. I mean, if he could prove it, maybe I’d believe it… not that I do.
@sgt_jake I wanna see that little fucker beat me at the original Mario Kart. No way he’s gonna win.
@ultimaslacker
well its all theory nevertheless we may never really know the truth, as there are several theories on what the ‘big bang’ even originated from based on the idea that the universe was created the way it is. so it would take many more than just 2 theories to disprove it because this only covers one idea of how the universe was created… there are several other theories on how the universe was created as well, so its going to be a long debate, and even if we seem to find a viable answer I’m almost certain that new theories will stem from what those disproving, or aproving theories are. kind of like a paradox where its an endless loop with similar ‘domino effect’ ideas… if that makes sense…?
@ultimaslacker linguistics fail… lol umm… i say ‘new theories will stem from what those disproving, or aproving theories are.’ i mean to say ‘new theories will stem from what those disproving, or approving DEBATES are.’
@Justin Otte @ultimaslacker Well, in any case, lots of people will talk a lot about things they can never understand… Ha ha.
@Justin Otte Actually, yes, that does make sense… I was thinking last night about something weird, though. People say, “There are no problems, only solutions.” Well, do you believe that? I don’t. Cuz, that means no matter what you do, you are never wrong. I believe that in some cases a person IS wrong. Therefore, there are both problems AND solutions. So, it’s not about if the world is good or bad, because it’s BOTH. But, it’s more like, what do you want YOUR life to be… good (full of solutions), or bad (full of problems). Is that kind of thinking existentialism? And is existentialism a kind of nihilistic view of the world like… no matter what you do, everything is meaningless? Ugh. It is frustrating. Sometimes all I want is just a hot chick — a piece of ass — and to literally blow my brains out so I can stop thinking… ha ha. Well, maybe not the second part. But, you get what I mean. Just started college too… 3rd year, really excited. Should take a philosophy class… but I argue with everyone… so, hmm.
@justin
Justin. i think in order to accurately answer any of those questions we need to understand what reality we are in, or if this is even reality altogether, or what reality is at all. with that knowledge we can further investigate the very fabric of that reality and apply our own ideas based on what we know. i don’t think that makes much sense but i know what im trying to get across… lol! do you understand??? i guess what im trying to say is we need to understand what the foundation for all of this existence is in order to understand how works even on a basic level. even that i don’t know if we will have a full understanding [in this lifetime]… i hope we do though! its funny (but also not when you think about it) how we dont even know what reality is. maybe this is all just a simulation and none of this is real. who knows. maybe reality is out there… as in not here.
@ultimaslacker (for some reason it replied my last message to me??? huh… make sure you read the one i sent to myself… that was for you actually. lol)
just to add to my response about your friend idea that there are no problems, only solutions… that phrase in its self is contradictory… because based on what your saying in response to that “no matter what you do, you are never wrong.” is exactly why that staement is contradictory, but not int he way that your thinking, because if that is true, and there are only solutions, then what are the solutions for??? you cannot have a solution without a problem in the first place, making the statement “there are no problems, only solutions” null and void… it really doesn’t make any sense…