Yes, they met only once and it was in the early 1940s at a seminar organized by Eugene Wigner. The physicists invited to this seminar read like a Who’s Who? of top theoretical physicists of the time. It included John von Neumann, Wolfgang Pauli, and Albert Einstein who was at the Institute for Advanced Study …
Artificial intelligence (AI) is encroaching on human intelligence, one step at a time, causing people to wonder whether the AI machines will eventually become sentient and take control of our world. As our species increasingly embraced the power of rational thinking, we began to develop machines that could simulate rational thought. Beginning at first as …
A person who excels in theoretical physics has demonstrated the capacity for abstraction required in chemistry, biology and mathematics, because theoretical physics requires a high level of competence in several branches of mathematics. However, that does not imply that a theoretical physicist has the knowledge to contribute to research on the frontiers of mathematics. Albert …
In answering this question, I will distinguish between astrology as an academic subject and astrology as a recreation. Astrology as an Academic Study or Discipline Britannica defines astrology as follows: Astrology is a method of predicting mundane events based upon the assumption that the celestial bodies—particularly the planets and the stars considered in their arbitrary …
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When astronaut James A. Lovell looked down from the Apollo 13 spacecraft on the tiny sphere that we call “earth”, he stated: [This view] gives you a different perspective of the Earth when you see it as three-dimensional between the sun and the moon, and you begin to realize how small and how significant the …
Parents and grandparents usually overestimate the intelligence of their offspring because they observe in amazement the rapid rate at which their child absorbs information, while forgetting that we humans learn at a prodigious rate during our early formative years. In a very short time, we acquire verbal language, learn how to read and write, and …
The greatest asset of a highly intelligent person is also their greatest liability–their difference from the rest of humanity. We live in a world where most people travel in a circular orbit around a center that we call “average” or “normal.” Most people are drawn to the consensus of the tribes to which they belong, …
Most people of exceptional intelligence will remain unknown to the public. We can prove this with simple mathematics. A person of IQ 140 (considered profoundly gifted) is in the 99.6th percentile. This means that their IQ is greater than 99.6% of all the population. In other words, people of IQ 140 or greater represent about …
For centuries people have asked, “What thinking processes do mathematicians and research scientists use in making discoveries that advance the frontiers of human knowledge?” Unfortunately, we know little of the mechanisms that lie “under the hood” of our mental awareness. In my post last Monday, I outlined Henri Poincaré’s theory of the subconscious and how …
While we have a reasonably accurate knowledge of how intelligence changes with age, the question of how creativity changes with age remains under debate. Furthermore, it depends on the field in which creativity is measured. It is generally recognized that mathematicians and theoretical physicists reach the peak of their creativity before age 45. Other scientists …
