/sci/ - Science & Math

Is this genius?

>I'm not looking for an ego boost or trying to find some sense of self-worth. I would like to know if these kinds of revelations and skills are characteristic of genius, or do many people have these skills and kinds of ideas every now and again?

1) Age ~5, fast at arithmetic, e.g. found 2^13 in 30 seconds to 1 minute, multiplied 52*7 in a couple of seconds.
2) Age ~7, found the arithmetic short-cut that the sum of n consecutive numbers was the average*n
3) Age ~7, came up with the concept of moments whilst thinking about different masses on a sea-saw.
4) Age ~9, (used to invent things and write them down), came up with the concept of augmented reality but only considered applications with computer games and RC helicopter games.
5) Believed for years as a child that if you knew the position, speed and direction of every particle, and you had a powerful enough computer, that you could predict the future indefinitely.
>Skip a few years.
6) Age ~17, intuitively used S=n(n+1)/2 and S=n(2a+(n-1)d)/2 to find sums of sequences, before encountering this before.
7) Age ~19, considered an angle for a 3D shape (independently came up with 'solid angles')
8) Age 20, came up with the concept of tensors (the difference was mine had a separate 'key' which would coincide with the subscripts in actual tensors). I brought this up on here thinking it was a cool idea, and someone pointed me in the direction of 'tensors' on wiki.

I have a lot of ideas that have been developed and sold years after me conceiving of them, whilst the news hails the inventor as genius. Is it really genius, or do most people get bright ideas?

"I have two main philosophies on life. One, lessen the suffering of the world. Two, learn something new every day."

It seems people don't know about sci, eng and maths

>>3961094

Lol it wouldn't be somewhere noticeable, i'm thinking maybe on my upper back.


but that's a good question.

Why is gravity a fundamental force?

I thought Einstein showed in general relativity that it can be explained as a pseudo-force resulting from matter travelling in geodesics in 4d spacetime, therefore no more a fundamental force than Coriolis force.

Why is there cosmic inflation? Can't it be explained by matter shrinking?

Why is there dark matter to explain why Newton's laws don't cause galaxies to fly apart? Couldn't it mean that Newton's laws don't work on the cosmic scale?

Why was there any commotion about the ftl neutrino when spacetime seems malleable?

In the last few weeks, I came up with the idea of tensors and of the solid angle.

In the past, I came up with an idea on gravity which turns out to all be contained within general relativity.

When I was 4, I understood operations enough to question the order of operations, for which no teacher could give a straight answer. At this age, my arithmetic allowed me to calculate 2^n up to 8,192 faster than I could speak, then having to slow down to calculate... When I was 6, I came up with the idea of moments. I understood the balance between a 3kg boy, 1m from the centre of a see-saw, and a 1kg boy 3 metres from the centre on the other side of the see-saw. We were not taught about moments until A-level, aged 17. At the same time, age<7, I knew that when calculating the average of consecutive numbers e.g. 65, 67, 69, 71, it is equal to the centre number, or the average of the median two numbers. I still see people adding all the numbers then dividing. In secondary school, I summed all the numbers from 1 to 100 in about 15 seconds, using what's described as (n/2)(n+1). I then came up with summing consecutive numbers not starting from zero that is described using an = a1 + (n-1)d. I don't know how profound this is... but it's shocking getting taught something you worked out when you were a small child... and your peers alongside you making notes of the formulae...

These are a few examples I've just thought of. I'm sure I've got loads more... Anyone else got any similar experiences?

Situation:
>Mechanical Engineering at University of Warwick, England.
>Completed first and second year both with High 2:1.
>Working class/poverty line history
>Minimal work experience (some tutoring, a few hours teaching in a college, some carpentry)
Ambitions:
>NASA/SpaceX/MD in space industry
>No cash to move to America, no contacts.

What will it take to get into NASA? How do I go aeronautical?

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