When his parents first
enrolled Jacob Barnett in school they were told to forget it and that their son
would never be able to learn anything in school. Naturally concerned they took
him to a doctor where they were told that he has a form of autism called
Aspergers that he would be able to learn simple tasks such as how to tie his
own shoes.
They discovered that Jacob
has a tremendous memory that allowed him to attend university classes after
learning the entire high school math curriculum in two weeks. When Jake was 11
years old, her mother made a video of him making sentences for her
incomprehensible. In the movie, the boy eats a sandwich sitting in the kitchen,
wearing a simple red sweatshirt and a baseball cap like an ordinary guy. But
then he begins to explain why Einstein’s theory does not convince him at all.
The video of 1 minute and 47
seconds ended up on YouTube and was noticed by Scott Tremaine, an important
professor at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton Universityin New
Jersey, where they studied and taught physicists such as Albert Einstein, Robert
Oppenheimer, and Kurt Godel .
“I am very impressed by the
interest in your son’s physics and by the amount of knowledge he has so far
assimilated. The theory on which Jake is working involves some of the most
difficult problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics. Anyone who solves
these will be in line for a Nobel Prize.”
Jacob is already graduating
in Astrophysics and is about to complete the PhD in Quantum Physics. He is
currently a researcher at Purdue University in Indianapolis and has several
scientific publications in his curriculum. Its IQ is 170 (higher than Albert
Einstein’s estimated IQ).
Often ironically, wearing
flip-flop sandals: “The doctors said
that I would not be able to do a thing and he guessed it. I can not tie my
shoes, that’s why I’m in slippers today”.
Now the young Barnett is
devoting himself to a very ambitious project, an expanded version of the Theory
of Relativity. When Einstein published his first studio, he was 26 and Jake
feels he has enough time to succeed in his intent:
“I’m still working, I have
an idea to prove it unfounded, but I still have to define the details of the
path to follow”.
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