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Jacob Barnett, a 12-year-old genius from Hamilton County, Indiana, is challenging Einstein’s theory of relativity and he’s working on solutions to prove Einstein might actually have been mistaken.

Some academics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, have confirmed the boy is on the right way to coming up with something completely new. Curently Jacob Barnett works for Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis and is paid for doing what he likes most, which is explaining calculus using a whiteboard marker on his bedroom windows. In the YouTube video below, recorded by his mother, Jacob explains his expanded theory of relativity.

In his early childhood, Jacob was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of Autism, so his parents expected him to have problems in school. However his IQ is as high as 170. His parents realised they were wrong when by the age of 3 Jackob started solving 5,000 piece puzzles. He also grasped calculus, algebra and geometry in two weeks. As an 8-year-old he left high school and since than he’s been attending college-level advanced astrophysics classes.

He is an unusual boy, but like any other kid he loves playing video games, watching shows on the Disney Channel and sci-fi movies.

Source: Time.com

Tags: Algebra, Astrophysics, Calculus, Einstein, Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Genius, Geometry, Mathematics, University, USA