physicist IQ higher than Einstein
[출생] 1998년 5월 26일
[학력]
인디애나대학교 대학원
프린스턴대학교
《제이콥, 안녕?》
미래의 노벨상 후보로까지 거론되는 천재 자폐
아 '제이콥 바넷(Jacob Barnett)'에게 행
복한 일강과 가치 있는 진로를 열어 준 한 엄마
의 이야기를 담은 자전 에세이.
저자인 크리스틴 바넷은 아들 제이콥이 생후 18
개월 때 자폐증을 진단받은 직후부터 전 세계가
주목하는 천체물리학자로 거듭나기까지 그 역경
과 기적의 세월을 가슴 먹먹하면서도 환희에 찬
이야기로 그려냈다.
자신만의 양육법으로, '아이가 무엇을 할 수 없
는가'가 아니라 '무엇을 할 수 있는가'에 초점
을 맞추고 아이에게 평범한 일상의 기쁨을 만끽
하게 해 주면서 좋아하는 것이 무엇이든 최대한
도전해 볼 기회를 만들어 주었다.
모든 아이는 자신만의 '불꽃(spark)'을 품고 있
고 그 불꽃이 활활 타오르도록 부모는 아이가
그 불꽃에 집중할 수 있게 사력을 다해 도와야
한다는 것이 크리스틴의 양육법이다.
총 5부로 구성된 이 책에는 제이콥이 자폐증 판
단을 받는 순간에서부터 홈스쿨링 과정, 놀이치
료의 과정, 제이콥이 대학에 입학해 자신의 재능
을 발휘하고 세계가 주목하는 천체물리학자가
된 성장기가 시간 순서대로 기록되어 있다.
책은 전 세계 23개국에 출간됐고, ‘워너브러더스’에
의해 영화화도 결정됐다.
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Jacob Barnett
[Born] 1998 May 26th
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
[Education]
Certificate of Completion, Perimeter
Scholars International, 2014
Jacob L. "Jake" Barnett (born 1998), is an
American physics student who received
publicity at the age of 12 based on
erroneous reports that he had disproved, was
about to disprove, or had expanded
Einstein's theory of relativity, that he had
developed a novel theory of astrophysics,
and that he was in line for a Nobel Prize.
His claimed theories have never been
published, nor subjected to expert
validation, and all tests of relativity have
verified Einstein's theory. After these
media appearances, his mother wrote a book
about parenting him, and a psychologist
wrote a book about child prodigies that
featured him.
[Early life]
His mother, Kristine Barnett, wrote a book
about her son called The Spark: A Mother's
Story of Nurturing Genius. In it, she said
that he was diagnosed with "moderate to
severe autism" at the age of 2, and that he
was subsequently home-schooled, displaying
an unusual talent for mathematics and
physics, and that he was working on a novel
theory of relativity at age 12. She wrote
that his theory was validated by physicist
Scott Tremaine, and that it would put him in
line for a Nobel Prize, repeating these
claims on talk news programs during the
promotion of The Spark. In Barnett's 2012
TEDxTeen talk, after comparing himself to
Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, Barnett
stated that he had solved a problem
and "created an original theory of
astrophysics". However, there had been no
peer review of Barnett's ideas.
[Media coverage]
In 2011, following a series of YouTube
videos published by Barnett's mother,
several articles appeared in the mainstream
media, with headlines such as "Autistic boy,
12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops
his own theory of relativity", "12-Year-Old
Genius Expands Einstein’s Theory of
Relativity, Thinks He Can Prove It Wrong",
and "Autistic teenager tipped for Nobel
Prize". A CTV News story asserted without
evidence that Barnett "built a series of
mathematical models that expanded Einstein's
field of relativity, which was described by
a Princeton University professor as ground-
breaking." Barnett had not disproved
Einstein and was not under consideration for
a Nobel Prize, and other sensationalist
claims made in these stories were false.
On the CBS web show 60 Minutes Overtime,
Joanne Ruthsatz, a psychologist specializing
in child prodigies, identified Jacob Barnett
as a child prodigy on the basis of a working
memory test she administered. In the same
program, Barnett was shown reciting a few
dozen digits of the decimal expansion of the
mathematical constant pi, a hobby known as
piphilology. He was also shown in the
program repeating about two dozen US States
from memory that were presented to him in a
random order. Later, Ruthsatz wrote a pop
psychology book entitled The Prodigy's
Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and
Extraordinary Talent with her daughter,
freelance journalist Kimberly Stephens, that
prominently featured Barnett.
[Specific claims promulgated in the media]
According to a Time article, Barnett claimed
to have proof that Einstein's theory of
relativity was wrong. As the special and
general theories of relativity have been
observationally tested and verified from
subatomic scales to the large scale
structure of the universe using a variety of
observational tests, the belief that the
theory is wrong is not accepted by
mainstream physicists. Although Barnett's
thoughts on the subject were never shared
with the scientific community, the
creationist periodical The New American said
that Barnett's "expanded theory of
relatively has turned heads".
On a local news story on ABC affiliate WEWS-
TV, Barnett stated a belief that a different
theory than conventional relativity must be
required because light needs to have nonzero
mass in order for conservation of energy and
mass-energy equivalence to hold. However,
according to basic university physics,
photons, the constituent particles of light,
already do have nonzero (relativistic) mass
in conventional relativity, in such a way
that energy is conserved, without the need
for modifications or expansions of the
theory. The predictions of the standard
theory match experimental data from many
areas of physics to many orders of
magnitude, without the need for any
modifications.
A story first appearing in The Indianapolis
Star, and later reported in The Blaze, the
Huffington Post, and elsewhere, asserted
that Barnett was working on disproving the
Big Bang theory. Barnett claimed that the
Big Bang theory did not account for the
amount of carbon that exists in the universe
outside of stars, and thus "the world would
have never been created because none of the
carbon would have been given 7 billion years
to fuse together." However, the relative
proportions of the elements that exist
through time are accounted for by Big Bang
nucleosynthesis and subsequently stellar
nucleosynthesis, and the observed abundance
of carbon is in line with the production
rates associated with helium burning in
stars along with the rates of known
enrichment processes that transport carbon
out of stars into the interstellar medium.
Although his view that the Big Bang did not
occur is at odds with the nearly universal
agreement of astrophysics experts, in 2011
creationists reported with some excitement
on Barnett's skepticism of the Big Bang.
[Education]
After previously auditing classes at Indiana
University – Purdue University Indianapolis
(IUPUI) through their Special Programs for
Academic Nurturing (a program for advanced
local high school students to study at
IUPUI), Barnett enrolled as a freshman
Honors Scholar at IUPUI in 2011. However, he
did not complete a degree at IUPUI.
Barnett was admitted to the Perimeter
Scholars International in 2013 at the
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
in Waterloo, Ontario. He took the program on
a two-year basis, in association with the
Independent Studies program at the
University of Waterloo, because he joined
the Perimeter Institute without a bachelor's
degree. He completed the program in 2014 and
continues there as a doctoral student.
(from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Barnett)
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At eight years old, Jacob
Barnett began auditing
physics classes at Indiana
University.
At age nine, while playing
with shapes, he built a
series of mathematical
models that expanded
Einstein's field of
relativity, which was
described by a Princeton
University professor as
ground-breaking.
At age 12, Jacob enrolled in
university full-time, and it
was around then that he
published his first physics
paper.
Now, at 15, he’s the
youngest researcher to ever
be accepted to Waterloo,
Ont.’s Perimeter Institute
for Theoretical Physics.
He’s considered one of the
world’s most promising
physicists -- and
considering that as a
toddler Jacob stopped
speaking for a year-and-a-
half and was diagnosed with
moderate-to-severe autism,
his accomplishments are
nothing short of amazing.
Jacob, however, remains
modest about his
achievements.
“There are a lot of people
that appear to be amazed by
my story, but in my opinion
I’m just a 15-year-old who’
s very motivated about his
subject and got started
early and I know what I want
to do,” Jacob told CTV News
from his new home in
Waterloo.
For the next year, Jacob
will study in a highly
competitive master’s degree
program at the Perimeter
Institute, where he’ll work
alongside some of the top
students in the world --
most of them quite a few
years older.
The program accepts 30
students a year from about
350 applicants.
“I probably have been
interested in physics for as
long as I can remember,”
Jacob said.
His mother, Kristine,
chronicled her son’s
incredible life in the
recently published book
“The Spark: A Mother’s
Story of Nurturing Genius.”
“In Jacob’s life there
were quite a few people who
had given up on him,”
Kristine said.
“The school came up to me
and told me that he would
never need his alphabet
cards because he would never
learn to read.”
It was then that Kristine
decided it was best to home-
school her son.
Having recently relocated
her family from Indiana to
Waterloo, Kristine said she’
s used to making
“unconventional” choices
to foster her son’s
abilities.
“The key to me is to make
sure he’s doing what he
loves,” she said.
“Everything else just sort
of follows.”
Meanwhile, the child prodigy
is quickly making a name for
himself.
In an inspiring TEDx talk,
Barnett urges others to
“stop learning and start
thinking.” The video has
close to two millions views
on YouTube.
Perimeter Institute Director
Neil Turok said he wasn’t
surprised that Barnett chose
to attend the school.
“We have been deliberately
designing Perimeter as the
most attractive place in the
world for the brightest
young people” he said,
adding that the great
breakthroughs of the future
will be made by “unusual
people with unusual
abilities.”
“I was looking out for
people like Jacob before he
found us,” Turok said.
“He walked in the door and
said, ‘This is where I want
to be.’”
(With a report by CTV’s
Scott Laurie)
(from http://www.ctvnews.ca)
=====================================
As a child, doctors told
Jacob Barnett’s parents
that their autistic son would
probably never know how to
tie his shoes.
But experts say the 14-year-
old Indiana prodigy has an
IQ higher than Einstein’s and
is on the road to winning a
Nobel Prize. He’s given
TedX talks and is working toward
a master’s degree in quantum
physics.
The key, according to mom
Kristine Barnett, was letting
Jacob be himself — by helping
him study the world with
wide-eyed wonder instead of
focusing on a list of things
he couldn’t do.
Diagnosed with moderate to
severe autism at the age of
2, Jacob spent years in the
clutches of a special education system
that didn't understand what he needed.
His teachers at school would try to dissuade
Kristine from hoping to teach Jacob any
more than the most basic skills.
(from nydn.us)
Expectation only and Empty output until now~
Positive Influence GRADE (PIG): Eo
