>>11166946because whenever an 11 year old looks smarter than grad students, all the grad students here get all insecure about how some kid will BTFO them.
thankfully in 2019 we see that Barnett turned out to be a meme who latched onto Lee Smolin which implies he will forever be a meme, so now we can feel OK about him. look, Sabrina P. was a big meme here but now in her postdoc she isn't revolutionizing physics so now the other postdocs here aren't worried about how she's level 4000 above us.
science people are super insecure. and if some little girl gets cited by Hawking or if some middle school boy gets accepted to grad school, it makes us look like we're trivial. but after time passes, those memes dissolve and normal career scientists stop worrying that they've been bested by child prodigies
look, Stephen Wolfram was a child prodigy and published his crap book in the 80s. where did that go? nowhere. he sold out and became a software guy. maybe he is rich because we use his software but he never ended up doing anything good in the field he got his degrees in. he was never nothing to worry about
