Jacob Barnett: 12-year old autistic genius in college studying astrophysics

[tkh123186]

This kid's story is simply amazing, perhaps he is an indigo or star-child that will help launch our understanding of astrophysics into the future!


http://www.mizozo.com/weird/03/2011/21/jacob-barnett-12-year-old-autistic-genius-in-colle....html

[Billy]

I was going to post a thread about this amazing boy Jacob Barnett who is now 14yrs old. But saw that a thread already existed when i did a search. It looks like this thread passed everybody bye.

I listened to Jacob and his mother this morning on the news.
Please take some time to listen to Jacob and his incredible abilities.

Some quotes i found. most are a couple of years old now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/jacob-barnett-12-year-old_n_841577.html

Jacob Barnett, 12-Year-Old College Student, Teaches Math You'll Likely Never Understand.

Is calculus not your thing?

Not to worry. A 12-year-old is here to help you out (scroll down for the mind-boggling video).

The Indianapolis Star reports that Jacob Barnett, who is mildly autistic, grasps some of the most complex concepts in math. He's attending Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where there is a movement to get him on board as a paid research assistant.

"We have told him that after this semester . . . enough of the book work. You are here to do some science," said IUPUI physics Professor John Ross.

Not only does he love working equations, Barnett believes he can prove Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity wrong, TIME reports. Astrophysics professor Scott Tremaine of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton confirms he's onto something. Another project in the works: disproving the Big Bang Theory.

http://malbell.com/2012/04/17/jacob-barnett-achieving-potential-despite-autism/

I love way that the internet allows you to discover fascinating new people. Jacob Barnett certainly comes into that category.

I came across him by chance after following a link from Twitter to a TedXTeen Talk (not his). His talk was one of many to be seen at the right hand side of the screen. I was attracted to the title: “Forget What You Know” . It was a very fortunate discovery.

The talk showed a very excitable and highly intelligent boy of 13 with a nervous laugh, communicating an idea about the need to forget prior learning and just think out new and creative ideas. He talked about Newton and Einstein and how events in their lives had meant that they had not received a more formal “education” and had periods of time when they could think completely novel thoughts. These thoughts were to lead to world changing developments in science.

It was about half way through the talk that he actually told us a bit about himself. He was autistic and had been given “special educational support” which he found a complete waste of time. He was though, through the efforts of his parents, able to develop his own interests from a very early age. These were mostly mathematical and scientific and he has been called a “boy genius”.

He has appeared on various programmes on American T.V.such as “60 Minutes“. At age 2 he was diagnosed as autistic and began to regress into a world of his own. In the following video clip from the original “60 Minutes” programme his parents explain how he was able to overcome his language and communication difficulties simply by being able to do what he liked best and being empowered to talk about this.. i.e. mathematics and physics.

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Jacobs mother has just written a book.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/08/indiana-boy-genius-book/2064921/

Diagnosed at 2 as autistic, Jacob Barnett, now 14, is focused on learning more about astrophysics and becoming a professor.
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(Photo: Kelly Wilkinson, The Indianapolis Star)
Story Highlights

Jacob Barnett, 14, is in college majoring in math and physics
"The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius" will be released Tuesday
Mother Kristine Barnett felt responsibility to inspire and help people

INDIANAPOLIS -- The extraordinary life of young prodigy Jacob Barnett has become routine — almost.

Less than two months shy of turning 15, Jacob is in college majoring in math and physics before venturing deeper into the world of research and eventually a Ph.D.

To truly understand'

Along this path, Jacob has developed his own philosophy. At a TEDxTeen talk last year he was energetic, walking a New York City stage in flip-flops and telling the audience to "be the field," or basically learn, then think and finally create something new.

That is what Jacob is starting to do, said Yogesh Joglekar, an associate professor who leads a research group Jacob is part of. There the 14-year old works on theoretical physics problems dealing with loss or gains in electronic or light systems.

"Jake has enrolled in and carried out this sort of research or advanced reading every semester and summer that I have known him. It is this tenacity and dedication that is most remarkable in a young student as gifted as he is," said Joglekar. "This will help him do exceptionally well in graduate school and beyond, because now he understands what it means to 'truly understand' and not just 'be superficially acquainted with.' "

Not enough time

Despite the impending spotlight on the Barnett family from the book release, mom Kristine says they are still like most Indiana residents. She and husband Michael run a charitable community center called Jacob's Place for autistic and special-needs children and their families.

"We are just a regular family. So this is really bizarre," she said of the book and movie deal. "You do feel like you have a public responsibility to inspire people and help people. But on a day-to-day basis, you are just you."

[soleil]

i want to learn how to do math like that. i used to think i was terrible at math, then i learned 1-10 of sacred geometry....if only that was taught in school, i think i would have a love of/for numbers.

[Billy]

In the meantime I am thinking that there is a connection between Jacob and the series Touch, my friend Sunfeather an Avalonian gifted me the first series on a memory stick. as i could watch it in my caravan. http://www.fox.com/touch/

14mins into the video above Jacob says he was with Fox TV. Is someone trying to say something here.

My laptop battery is running out. Namaste




Peace

[Billy]

Listening to young Jacob in the video's, His repetitive message is. " When you stop learning and start thinking you begin to create"
He uses examples of our historical thinkers such as Einstein and Newton. Although young Jacob does not agree with all of Einsteins theories. He says that their greatest inspirations came to them when they were alone and thinking/contemplating and not in the schools of learning.

I agree with Jacob.

As far as the series Touch is concerned, Although it is very Hollywoodish, And Young Jake's fathers role playing is very annoying with his constant fretting. The message here is peoples destiny, synchronizing and coincidences all playing a major role through numbers within humanity.

[Atlas]

Jacob Barnett talks about time travel:

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http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/sites/perimeter-www.pi.local/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-22889-1379694341.jpg
16 years-old, PhD
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/people/Jacob-Barnett

[Flash]

Oh la la! Great but I am scared for the kid. Too much in the open and most probably already tagged. And he won't know when not to say what he knows in order to protect himself.

However, if we were in the right mind and right heart, the whole planet would be like this, creative and full of life, each one's inner Genius coming out.

[Flash]

Jacob is soooo funny. Absolutely cute. I have been surrounded with Learning disabled kids for the last 17 years and you would not imagine the treasure of wisdom some of them have. They often cannot pass IQ tests because of some neurological impairments, but they really think differently and some are literal geniuses. Full of low self esteem because of the bullying they had to go through and often with parents who did not understand their basic special talents.

I had a party for my daugter last week end and they were like him. I thoroughly enjoy them and their presence, as long as one is open enough for the idiosyncracies that might show up at times - like picking up a teenager from the floor and telling her "no, you are not choking!!" and when she breathed, saying " are you fine now?" I knew it was one of these indiosyncracies. So i turned around and just did the hostess work, as if nothing had happened, because in fact, nothing had happened, she was just intensely trying something that worried the others.

At one point, i was thinking that it is quite fine to have some neurological impairments, or to be like this, because those kid cannot be programmed, at least not the standard ways. So they are truly thinking without the usual programmations. Hopefully, without any programmation ever.

We will be saved by the "misfit", the bullied, the geniuses and those with greater wisdom showing up (not all geniuses have wisdom by the way, the planet is full of PhD's doing work on GMO and biowarfare to kill others - they have learned!! lol)