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This dude wrote books on particle physics at 15 and got a PHD in physics at 20, how the fuck do you do that, when I was 14 I was oblivious to everything I just went out with my friends in the countryside.

I usually regard myself as a smart person but after seeing the accomplishments of some of this kind of people I feel like I'm just a mediocrefag.

>> No.12176843

>>12176835
Developing early is a bad thing. All the low hanging fruit has been plundered; it takes many more years than it once did to crystallise a great mind.

>> No.12176847

>>12176835
And look at him now, he's an egotistical fart who peddles what is essentially numerology.

>> No.12176913

>>12176835
Go to bed, Wolfram.

>> No.12176931

He likely had influential and intelligent parents that provided him a good home.

>> No.12176938

>>12176835
you are mediocre
but look on the bright side:
life is meaningless

>> No.12176964

>>12176835
It's not hard to get ahead in life if you've got some nepotism to explode you forwards.

>> No.12177108

>>12176835
>I just went out with my friends in the countryside.
Good. Your childhood is for free exploration and socialising. You will always have those memories.

>> No.12177128

Wolfram probably knows a good idea when he sees it. A lot of academics can only tell if an idea is formatted for a federal grant application.

>> No.12177132

>>12176835
It literally makes no difference to the world if someone got their PhD at 20 or 30. Would you genuinely have preferred to have spent your life the way this guy did, or are you just not content with your own achievements?

>> No.12177159

>>12176835
you're a d&c kike promoting just another "einstein" cult

>> No.12177165

>>12176835
His book was a compilation of what he had read on the subject, like everything those people do - just like Einstein passing off the work of Poincare and others, even his wife, as his own.

>> No.12177195

When i was 14 i watched hentai and anime hardly leaving home, look at me now still the same.

>> No.12177334

>>12176835
I bet his corpus callosum is HUGE

>> No.12177368

>>12176835
because he was deeply interested. At 15 I could remember almost all items in WoW and what the did and how much they cost. was I a genius? no, I was involved in the game.
think of a 15yo interested in science with the same passion 15yos are interested in like fortnite today

>> No.12177396

>>12176835
he had a learning disability early on in life that he somehow overcome which made him good at subjects involving a lot of symbolic manipulation.
This isn't even joke, you can look it up. He basically has turbo-boosted autism

>> No.12177443

>>12177132
this

>> No.12177446

>>12176931
You mean good genes?

>> No.12177935

>>12176835
Well, somebody is always better at something then you. There's still something somebody else is better as, so be the best at what you're the best at, and that's probably being yourself.

You can be mediocre, but remember, society is build on mediocre people, because without mediocre people everybody is super advanced, and then super advanced people wouldn't be better at anything than you.

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>>12176835
He is Feynman's protege btw.

>> No.12178062

SO, WHAT, LOOK AT THIS FUCKING FACE, WHAT A UGLY DUDE, JESUS, 20 YEARS PHD? DUDE IS SO SMART WHY DIDNT HE GO THE GYM AND TAKE CSRE OF HIMSELF,

>> No.12178077

>>12177446
No, he specifically described a good environment

>> No.12178088

>Wolfram's father, Hugo Wolfram (1925–2015), a textile manufacturer born in Bochum, Germany, served as managing director of the Lurex Company, makers of the fabric Lurex. He was also the author of three novels.[11][12][13][14] He emigrated to England in 1933.[15] When World War II broke out, he left school at 15 and subsequently found it hard to get a job since he was regarded as an "enemy alien". As an adult, he took correspondence courses in philosophy and psychology.[11]

Wolfram's mother, Sybil Wolfram (1931–1993; born Sybille Misch), originally from Berlin, Germany, was a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall at University of Oxford from 1964 to 1993. She published two books, Philosophical Logic: An Introduction (1989)[16] and In-laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England (1987).[17][18] She was the translator of Claude Lévi-Strauss's La pensée sauvage (The Savage Mind), but later disavowed the translation.[19][20] She was the daughter of criminologist and psychoanalyst Kate Friedlander (1902–1949), an expert on the subject of juvenile delinquency,[21] and the physician Walter Misch (1889–1943) who, together, wrote Die vegetative Genese der neurotischen Angst und ihre medikamentöse Beseitigung.[22] After the Reichstag fire in 1933, she emigrated from Berlin, Germany to England with her parents and Jewish psychoanalyst Paula Heimann (1899–1982).[23][24][25]
>Wolfram was educated at Eton College, but left prematurely in 1976.[28] At Eton, he was taught mathematics by Norman Routledge (1928–2013), a friend of Alan Turing.[29][30] He entered St. John's College, Oxford at age 17
Gee, I wonder why.

>> No.12178121

>>12176835
>I usually regard myself as a smart person
NGMI

>> No.12178130

>Wolfram, at the age of 15, began research in applied quantum field theory and particle physics and published scientific papers. Topics included matter creation and annihilation, the fundamental interactions, elementary particles and their currents, hadronic and leptonic physics, and the parton model, published in professional peer-reviewed scientific journals including Nuclear Physics B, Australian Journal of Physics, Nuovo Cimento, and Physical Review D.[42] Working independently, Wolfram published a widely cited paper on heavy quark production at age 18[2] and nine other papers,[18] and continued research and to publish on particle physics into his early twenties. Wolfram's work with Geoffrey C. Fox on the theory of the strong interaction is still used in experimental particle physics.[43]
I think it's interesting that even someone this intelligent hasn't been able to make a considerable Einstein-like mark on physics. It's just become too complicated for one person to make a large contribution these days.

>> No.12178140

>>12178077
do you think genes and good environments are uncorrelated?

>> No.12178176

>>12177396
How did he overcome it?

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>>12176913

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>>12178130
>It's just become too complicated for one person to make a large contribution these days.
One person could a lot to uncomplicate it.

>> No.12178629

>>12176835
I'm sure no one has said this ever, but humans didn't evolve to live in nation states we evolved to survive in the savannah. From that point of view your intelligence is sufficient (maybe even superfluous). The problem is that society benefits disproportionately benefits the intelligent and the lucky; more emphasis on the lucky. Our biology hasn't exactly caught up. In fact, I think it has retrogressed, taken a turn for the worse. We've become domesticated. We are not allowed to think certain things, are more easily manipulated by norms, etc. so that say murdering your boss is unthinkable.
>>12178130
Come now. In some sense making breakthroughs like that comes down to luck. He's smart and knows where to search, but he may just be looking in the wrong places.
>>12178121
Bitter PhD student detected. Enjoy leaving your meager shit-stain of a mark on the literature. I'm sure it was all worth it

>> No.12178631

>>12176835
Lots of people are capable of that, but only Jewish people are coddled enough to make it happen.

>> No.12178660

>>12176835
he is reasonably high iq but he also had a private education and tutors; his parents payed attention to him and guided him to academic pursuits; he had money and tools at his disposal; and he had strong community support. If you wonder why the jews are doing better than whites it's because they have strong family and community ties, they believe in selective breeding, and they put an emphasis on schooling

You will never accomplish what he has accomplished because you failed to start when you were a kid and you don't have the support structure.

>> No.12178680

>>12178176
effort, which the majority of people can't stand. making it is a meme unless you are in the top .01%

>> No.12178690

>>12178680
That doesn't make any sense. It's like saying he won a marathon with a broken leg. He probably never had a learning disability in the first place.

>> No.12178699

>>12176835
autism

>> No.12178929

>>12176835
He went to Eton.

>> No.12178950

>>12178140
He had both. He had good parents in that both his parents were intelligent which gave him a good genetic start. His intelligent parents did the smart thing and created a productive environment for their child.

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12178954

>>12176835

Why would you feel bad anon; just do the best you can with whatever gifts the lord has given you. Even our lord and savior was only a "mere" carpenter.

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12179117

>>12178954
Jesus was also a teacher, a healer, and a scholar, not to mention much more than that.

>> No.12179154

>>12176835
Accomplishements.

Theories and hypotheses are not usefull until they're put into useful work, it's up to you to make his physics being beneficial to other things than just understanding,

>> No.12179212

>>12178690
>It's like saying he won a marathon with a broken leg
imagine that you broke your leg and were told you would never be a runner. you can either accept it or put in more effort than the average and learn effective strategies which may be worthless but if you can overcome the disability then you will be in a better place than the average person as far as work ethic

>> No.12179217

>>12179117
lol simping for king cuck

>> No.12179447

>>12176835
Everybody's mediocre in something.

>> No.12179475

>>12179217
Cope. Jesus did a lot more things (and more things right now) than you ever will do.

>> No.12179495

>>12176835

His eyes are uneven.

Looks disgenic as fuck.

>> No.12179502

>>12176835
>how the fuck do you do that
Money, having parents well connected to university bureaucracy.

>> No.12179902

>>12176835
retard

>> No.12180250

>>12179475
lol projecting cope; how embarrassing

>> No.12180726

>>12178929
I mean yeah. That's probably it. Could have been ten times as smart, if he wouldn't have gone to an elite school, he would've never made it.

>> No.12180739

>>12178954
>literally the most influential person to have ever lived on this planet
>just a carpenter
lmao

>> No.12180845

>>12179217
People are solving planetary crysis while you fuck there.

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12180962

>People are solving planetary crysis

>> No.12181010

>>12176843
>it takes many more years than it once did to crystallise a great mind.
Cool. Gonna use that the next time my mom asks what the fuck I've been doing all day

>> No.12181603

>>12179212
Except that he was born with a disability. It's akin to winning a race against average people with both legs. He had a physics PhD at 20, how is that a learning disability? Do you really understand what a disability is?

>> No.12181686

>>12180739
that's his point idiot

>> No.12181780

>>12176835

I once gave a "lecture" or a "show and tell" in the 7th grade about the universe when I was 13-14 years old. The topics included black holes, subatomic particles, supernovae and some other concepts.

The lecture wasn't even part of a physics class, it was for a Dutch class but we were allowed to talk about any book so I picked one about physics.

My teacher was blown away that I could grasp the aforementioned subjects, give examples and even answer questions from fellow classmates like what happens when someone would fall into a black hole. I talked about the event horizon, the Schwarzschild radius.

So anyway, now I fap to tranny porn by myself.

>> No.12181792

>>12181780
4chan ruined you

>> No.12181797

>be me
>be 26yo
>start PhD this year
ehh

>> No.12181917

>>12181792

I was fucked pre-4chan. Grew up dirt poor, bullied by all my siblings, wasn't stimulated or motivated by anyone at that age so I got depressed and gave up on that path and on life in general.

Now I'm a college dropout doing menial accounting tasks.

>> No.12181945

>>12181797
Don't beat yourself up anon.
I've started my Bachelors at 18, finished after 2.5 years, I then started my army service while having 1 day a week to work on my masters.
Only now after 5.5 years (where I finished the contract 5 months ago and could work on it 24/7) I finished my thesis.
I even take a year break to do some out of program research before I bind myself to four ears of PhD.
AS long as the road is valuable I'm good.

>> No.12181991

>>12181917
I can sympathise.

I dropped out of the system because the system was not on my side. But I'm very self motivated, and determined to do better than the fools that conspired against me at every level.

>> No.12182058

>>12176835
You don't need to be jealous, his life isn't really much better than yours and Wolfram software isn't that amazing.

>> No.12182059

>>12181991
Good luck, anon.

>> No.12182079

>>12180739
That's the point you fuckwit

>> No.12182136

>>12176938
i feel much better now
thank you anon

>> No.12182331

>>12181603
never saw forrest gump?

>> No.12182706

>>12182331
Gump excelled at physical events Dumbass, this guy is smarter than the Bennet teenager you fags love to praise

>> No.12182766

>>12177128
>Wolfram probably knows a good idea when he sees it. A lot of academics can only tell if an idea is formatted for a federal grant application.
hahaha true that, then they cuck themselves so hard by giving the real science to grad students and post docs to actually do and figure out while they transition to sucking the next government funding agency's cock

>> No.12182936

>>12176835
He just found a borderline autistic interest at a young age which isn't flashy video games. Had I read books on a topic with the same ferocity I slaughtered Orks in DoW:FoK I probably would have had a PhD too at a young age and probably had that supported by good parents who gave him material and maybe even hooked him up with good teachers on the subjects. Many parents probably don't even know how to get in touch with local professors.
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if he is a lopsided personality which knows next to nothing to unrelated fields. Doesn't have to be bad, but defs isn't good.

>> No.12183042

>>12181686
it was not his main profession you absolute mongoloid

>> No.12183261

>>12176835
Jewish DNA

>> No.12183282

The real question: Is he happy?

>> No.12183458

>>12183282
This question is profoundly retarded and reflects the satanic viewpoint that self-satisfaction is the most important thing. You people are disgusting.

>> No.12183853

Jewish genes+Environment+Timing