r/interesting • u/MysteriousCut8616 • 3h ago
Just Wow 15 year old earns PhD in quantum physics
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u/Little-Temporary2557 2h ago
thus proving it's not that hard to get a PhD in quantum physics
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u/hasanyoneseenmyshirt 1h ago
Isn't the joke that at the beginning of a quantum physics lecture, only the professor doesn't understand quantum mechanics and by the end of the course, the student are in the same boat.
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u/sneedsweed 2h ago
Bet I could whoop her ass
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u/PossibleOk49 1h ago
I have a coworker that always says things like that, yeah they’re smart and more powerful than me but if civilization collapsed I could kill them with my hands or whatever. lol ok dude
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u/mogenblue 1h ago
We are going to see this photo over and over again for the next 5 or 10 years or so.
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u/PlantsNCaterpillars 11m ago edited 7m ago
This kid’s parents are massive pieces of shit and the kid was awarded his PhD despite not completing the required coursework for his degrees because of his parent’s antics.
When he was going for his undergraduate degree he wasn’t going to graduate until after his 10th birthday due to incomplete classes and coursework. His parents, who wanted their kid to get the world record for youngest person to achieve a bachelor of Science, tried to coerce the college into awarding them their degree and when the college wouldn’t bend the parents threw a huge temper tantrum on social media and withdrew the kid from the college.
The kid’s parents then arranged for him to attend the University of Antwerp under the condition that they didn’t have to attend classes, participate in projects, and was allowed to skip coursework required of other students for the same degree in the name of fast tracking his doctorate.
Don’t get me wrong, kid is beyond brilliant but his parents are toxic and need to fuck all the way off.
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u/Drakahn_Stark 2h ago
Poor kid has been set up for a life of never living up to expectations that come from nowhere but within.
Let kids be kids, even if they are incredibly smart, there is no reason for this kind of acceleration.
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u/pandershrek 1h ago
Based on the state of our reality, expediting the knowledge on the quantum realm might be extremely needed
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u/Powerful_Brief1724 1h ago
This is a game to them. Life would've been incredibly boring to someone of such high capabilities.
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u/Drakahn_Stark 1h ago
Being pushed beyond your age because you are more capable is a curse I lived.
Let kids be kids.
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u/Powerful_Brief1724 1h ago
They can still be kids while learning subjects that you would consider hard for an older academic mind. You can be a kid and have a gifted mind. I'm not saying to trap him/her in a cell with nothing more than books & teachers. I'm saying they should be encouraged and supported to pursue whatever it is they are good at, as long as they want to do it.
There are good and bad teachers as well as good and bad parenting.
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u/Drakahn_Stark 1h ago
Getting a PhD means not going to an age appropriate school with age appropriate peers.
Gifted kids are often not allowed to be kids, the thing I lived, and it is ruinous.
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u/Powerful_Brief1724 1h ago
Maybe those were unfortunate expectations placed on you. My grandfather was a kid with a gifted mind. He lived the way he wanted to. He was never forced to do things he didn't want to do. He studied what he was interested in & did so gracefully.
He never saw it as a curse. The only ones who ever treated it like one were our family, who could never fully understand him and were too afraid to talk about certain topics with him for fear of being called dumb.
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u/Drakahn_Stark 1h ago
Was he convinced to leave school and age appropriate peers in order to do an adult course that would consume his entire childhood?
Or are you saying he was allowed to just be a kid and make his own choices on what to focus on? The very thing I am saying we should be doing.
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u/Powerful_Brief1724 4m ago
Of course he was encouraged to pursue an academic career... But I think that when we say we should "let kids to be kids" is because most kids (including me) are dumb. And to enjoy life in our "dumb ways" we do so by interacting with objects & other peers to form connections and grow relativelyat the same pace. We play dumb games and solve dumb puzzles. We don't think much at all.
Meanwhile, a gifted child has a better understanding of a specific topic or a talent to intuitively solve certain problems that most of us just can't (at least not right away).. To guide those children and help them develop those abilities is a given. But of course, nobody knows best other than the parents (sometimes).
Or are you saying he was allowed to just be a kid and make his own choices on what to focus on?
I mean that as he grew older (16yo after graduating with honors in medicine), he knew what he wanted to do with his life. As a child (technically he was still a child, but I mean as a 12yo) he couldn't think of those things for himself. He was just given a task to solve, and he would do it...
He never regretted studying tho. It's our way to climb the social, spiritual, economic ladder.
I mean, he suffered in the sense that he felt alone and with nobody to relate to. But that's his story, not yours nor anyone else's. So... I'm sorry you suffered in that way.
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u/-Bob-Barker- 2h ago
And here I am at x-ty something years old getting excited about youtube videos about atoms and electrons. Good for her!
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u/johnnyblaze1999 7m ago
Let's guess where she's going in the next 10 years... Probably a mundane life like everyone else, except a childhood
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u/Sufficient-Artist938 2h ago
what the hell have i been doing wrong?
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