What Really Makes a Genius?

[NB79]

Maybe not all geniuses are about intelligence, maybe an artisan musician or athlete etc.
In the bible it says there were people with gifts in metal working.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

THis is the one guy I know who has a 200 IQ. Strange when I had stroke woke up with message what you seek is information. bought DVD from great courses on Information theory then years later found out Ed was working on this also. Stunned me.

 

[Shevek]

I estimate roughly that a list of geniuses compiled by average people would include 50% non-genius folk with one or two rare talents, and exclude 90% of geniuses because they don't happen to also have social skills. One brain can only do so much.

 

[vergil96]

THis is the one guy I know who has a 200 IQ. Strange when I had stroke woke up with message what you seek is information. bought DVD from great courses on Information theory then years later found out Ed was working on this also. Stunned me.

I know several people who are frightening just because of their IQ, how fast they process information and know exactly what you're going to do and say and play around with all the possible scenarios.

Although I don't understand what is unusual about producing paper after paper after paper. That's pretty much expected if you want to have an academic career in more than just teaching. I wouldn't light up so much about something that isn't that abnormal. I'm already writing the second and third paper in one year and starting fourth. You can't contemplate too much on one paper, because it's going to be peer reviewed anyway and rebuilt and if you struggle with writing and take ages to write a few pages, you're no fit for academia. It's the nature of the job. There is also the question about the quality of these papers and how repetitive they are.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I have read many stories about Ed Witten, he single handedly turned string theory into a thing years ago How he won the fields medal, is stunning I remember it.

 

[vergil96]

I'm not a fan of string theory personally

I'm more of a hypergraphs guy

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

We are in agreement on that. I like leonard Susskind's stuff plus Neil Turok. Even Leonard is walking away from string theory. I left when I could not visualize it., then hooked up on loop quantum gravity until it few apart, with one observation. Noticed a long time ago if I can visualize it it is usually correct.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

The genius thar most resembled, my older brother. What I see in my minds eye fits perfectly see my physics thread. emergent time concurrently moving forward and backward matter and antimatter same stuff, just time different. separated by a fourth spatial dimension.