He is trying to say that there is more carbon in the universe that would be predicted by the currently accepted theorems about no carbon being created in the be big bang, the universe being 13 billion years old, and all carbon being created inside stars past a certain size. No, I don't get that from his explanation, I get that from other people's interpretation of his explanation. I'm too stupid to refute his theory, but I don't think it means that the big bang theory is wrong. Rather, it means that one of several different theories about the universe is inaccurate. He's probably just wrong in assuming that carbon is uniformly distributed rather than their being local minima and maxima -- areas close to several supernovae would have an abundance of carbon, and we might be in one such area.
Right, 'cause scientists have never reversed themselves about anything in the history of science, especially in the fields of medicine and astrophysics!
No, he's learning by working through the numbers himself. There is also a chance that he might have some new insights, no matter how small that chance might be. What little I learned of Physics I learned by redoing the experiments others had done 100 years earlier. Give this kid a chance to go down some of the blind alleys that others have already gone down; he'll get an appreciation of what Physics is really all about.
I did radio maintenance one summer. I was told to fix a 30 year old 2-way radio with no schematics that was basically a bunch of tube sockets with wires running between leads on each socket. After testing all the tubes and doing a visual inspection, I gave up. But one of the radar technicians was able to figure out that a diode in the power supply had gone bad and kludged in a ridiculously oversized diode from the radar parts! Of course, I was 18 and he was about 50...
"Your honor, my client couldn't possibly have known that SCEA was located in California, because he is utterly incapable of using Google! I rest my case."
I not clear on how not knowing where a company is headquartered helps GeoHotz's case.
Sad but true, I've concluded Microsoft is less evil then Sony. In fact, I'm tempted to by an Xbox with included Kinect now that they are $380 at Costco. Nintendo is much less evil than either Sony or Microsoft, but my Wii is looking a little long in the tooth now.
I decided to boycott Sony a few years back with my Sony "Dream Machine" home theater system turned out to be a nightmare -- Sony managed to put out some of the worst quality DVD players at the highest prices.
Agreed. Making your own mistakes is the best way of learning. But he will need some mentor(s) to direct his energy into more productive areas in the near future.
That's the problem with spectrum disorders... they are things that everybody does, but some people do more than others. It's nearly impossible to determine a point at which it becomes a "disability".
Einstein had a one-track mind. He would get fixated on one subject and obsess about it for days, to the exclusion of all else. Imagine what happened when he got fixated on pussy!
All the meteor hunters I've seen used an off-the-shelf metal detector. Of course, that only works for the vast majority of meteorites which are iron/nickel.
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Apparently so does Bart Simson: “I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!”
He is trying to say that there is more carbon in the universe that would be predicted by the currently accepted theorems about no carbon being created in the be big bang, the universe being 13 billion years old, and all carbon being created inside stars past a certain size. No, I don't get that from his explanation, I get that from other people's interpretation of his explanation. I'm too stupid to refute his theory, but I don't think it means that the big bang theory is wrong. Rather, it means that one of several different theories about the universe is inaccurate. He's probably just wrong in assuming that carbon is uniformly distributed rather than their being local minima and maxima -- areas close to several supernovae would have an abundance of carbon, and we might be in one such area.
Yeah, some of it is worse!
Even if you can launch it into a black hole, how do you get the experimental results back after the spacecraft passes through the event horizon?
Right, 'cause scientists have never reversed themselves about anything in the history of science, especially in the fields of medicine and astrophysics!
No, he's learning by working through the numbers himself. There is also a chance that he might have some new insights, no matter how small that chance might be. What little I learned of Physics I learned by redoing the experiments others had done 100 years earlier. Give this kid a chance to go down some of the blind alleys that others have already gone down; he'll get an appreciation of what Physics is really all about.
I'm still having a problem with that whole "inflation" thing myself...
Unless, of course, the professor was also a Jesuit priest...
Unfortunately both "faggot" and "fagot" are acceptable spellings of this unacceptable term.
Face it, any fagot can get a job, procreate, and get wealthy.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I did radio maintenance one summer. I was told to fix a 30 year old 2-way radio with no schematics that was basically a bunch of tube sockets with wires running between leads on each socket. After testing all the tubes and doing a visual inspection, I gave up. But one of the radar technicians was able to figure out that a diode in the power supply had gone bad and kludged in a ridiculously oversized diode from the radar parts! Of course, I was 18 and he was about 50...
Because spring is here and I can't wear shorts without being charged with indecent exposure!
Eat it!
Unless that prefix is "teen", twelve years olds still wouldn't be called "teens", would they?
"Your honor, my client couldn't possibly have known that SCEA was located in California, because he is utterly incapable of using Google! I rest my case."
I not clear on how not knowing where a company is headquartered helps GeoHotz's case.
Sad but true, I've concluded Microsoft is less evil then Sony. In fact, I'm tempted to by an Xbox with included Kinect now that they are $380 at Costco. Nintendo is much less evil than either Sony or Microsoft, but my Wii is looking a little long in the tooth now.
I decided to boycott Sony a few years back with my Sony "Dream Machine" home theater system turned out to be a nightmare -- Sony managed to put out some of the worst quality DVD players at the highest prices.
Agreed. Making your own mistakes is the best way of learning. But he will need some mentor(s) to direct his energy into more productive areas in the near future.
...only the stupidly arrogant think of "ordinary" people as "barely functioning, non-contributing member[s] of society."
News flash...the overwhelming majority of the highly-functionaly contributing members of society are just ordinary (non-brilliant) people.
Those telephones aren't going to sanitize themselves!
Wait... when did 12 become a "teen"??? I always thought teens began with thirteen and ended with nineteen...
That's the problem with spectrum disorders... they are things that everybody does, but some people do more than others. It's nearly impossible to determine a point at which it becomes a "disability".
Feynman real talent was the ability to explain complex physics in terms even a 12 year old could understand. Looks like this kid has that same talent.
Wow... he's rewriting relativity, and he can't even derive yet!
Einstein had a one-track mind. He would get fixated on one subject and obsess about it for days, to the exclusion of all else. Imagine what happened when he got fixated on pussy!
"I gave the bitch an expanded Theory of Relativity. Bitches love expanded Theories of Relativity!"
Yep, the women are gonna be all over this kid like prepubescents on a Beiber...
All the meteor hunters I've seen used an off-the-shelf metal detector. Of course, that only works for the vast majority of meteorites which are iron/nickel.