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Autistic boy,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity | We Care Autism
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’. His mother, not sure if her child was talking nonsense or genius, sent a video of his theory to the renowned Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton university. According to the Indiana Star, Institute astrophysics professor Scott Tremaine -himself a world renowned expert – confirmed the authenticity of Jake’s theory.
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family . Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry , and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. Aldous Huxley was a humanist , pacifist , and satirist , and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics . By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
Aldous Huxley
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin [ 1 ] (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM , [ 2 ] is an American screenwriter and author of fantasy , horror , and science fiction . He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire , his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic series Game of Thrones . Martin was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100", a list of the "most influential people in the world". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ edit ] Biography George R.A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin . Martin began the series in 1991 and published the first volume, A Game of Thrones , in 1996.
A Song of Ice and Fire
Robert Anson Heinlein ( pron.: / ˈ h aɪ n l aɪ n / HYN -lyn ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Free Speculative Fiction Online Robert A. Heinlein Winner of 4 Hugos (and nominated for 6 more). Nominated for 4 Nebulas.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke , CBE , FRAS , Sri Lankabhimanya , (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer and inventor, [ 2 ] and futurist . [ 3 ] He is famous for his short stories and novels, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] For many years Robert A. Heinlein , Isaac Asimov , and Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. [ 6 ] Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 1941 to 1946.
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. Arthur C. Clarke It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.
Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British writer Arthur C.
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Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett , OBE (born 28 April 1948) is an English author of fantasy novels , especially comical works . [ 4 ] He is best known for the Discworld series of about 40 volumes.Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov ( / ˈ aɪ z ɨ k ˈ æ z ɨ m ɒ v / EYE -zək AZ -ə-mov ; [ 2 ] born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov ; Russian : Исаак Юдович Озимов ; c.The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light.
The Last Question -- Isaac Asimov
Eyes Do More Than See
Copyright © 1965 by Mercury Press, Inc. After hundreds of billions of years, he suddenly thought of himself as Ames. Not the wavelength combination which, though all the universe was now the equivalent of Ames -- but the sound itself. A faint memory came back of the sound waves he no longer heard and no longer could hear."Explain, Aub" said Shuman. "Yes, Programmer. Well, gentlemen, I write down seventeen and just underneath it I write twenty-three.