Twelve-year old boy genius Jacob Barnett has already acquired boasting rights. He is already in college and possesses an IQ that is higher than Albert Einstein’s. He is currently working on an expanded version of Einstein’s theory of relativity.

As if any of that's not enough, Jacob has announced his intent to disprove the Big Bang theory.

Jacob explained his rationale to the Indianapolis Star. "There are two different types of when stars end," Jacob said. "When the little stars die, it’s just like a small poof. They just turn into a planetary nebula. But the big ones, above 1.4 solar masses, blow up in one giant explosion, a supernova. What it does, is, in larger stars there is a larger mass, and it can fuse higher elements because it’s more dense."

Jacob continued:

So you get all the elements, all the different materials, from those bigger stars. The little stars, they just make hydrogen and helium, and when they blow up, all the carbon that remains in them is just in the white dwarf; it never really comes off.

So, um, in the big-bang theory, what they do is, there is this big explosion and there is all this temperature going off and the temperature decreases really rapidly because it’s really big. The other day I calculated, they have this period where they suppose the hydrogen and helium were created, and, um, I don’t care about the hydrogen and helium, but I thought, wouldn’t there have to be some sort of carbon?

Otherwise, the carbon would have to be coming out of the stars and hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon, we wouldn’t be here. So I calculated, the time it would take to create 2 percent of the carbon in the universe, it would actually have to be several micro-seconds. Or a couple of nano-seconds, or something like that. An extremely small period of time. Like faster than a snap. That isn’t gonna happen.

Because of that, that means that the world would have never been created because none of the carbon would have been given 7 billion years to fuse together. We’d have to be 21 billion years old ... and that would just screw everything up.

Christians worldwide should applaud Jacob’s intent to disprove one of the many theories put forth by atheists to explain away the Biblical creation. According to astronomer Paul Steidl, “The big bang was invented specifically for the purpose of doing away with the creation event. An astronomer would laugh at the naivety of anyone who chose to equate the two events.”

Similarly, evolutionist Paul Davies asserts that the Big Bang Theory “differs greatly in detail from the biblical version.” He contends, “What one cannot say is, first, that the Christian doctrine of creation ‘supports’ the Big Bang model, or second, that the Big Bang model ‘supports’ the doctrine of creation.”

Therefore Jacob’s refutation of the Big Bang Theory may help to put creation into perspective for many non-believers.

Jacob’s young overworked mind is both a blessing and a burden, as he is often kept awake by numbers in his head. Diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, a mild form of autism, Jacob did not speak until two years of age.

However, Jacob managed to learn Mathematics in two weeks. His mother explains: “In one two-week period, he sat on our front porch and learned all of his high school math. He tested out of algebra 1 and 2, geometry, trigonometry and calculus.”

By the time Jacob was eight years old, his parents enrolled him at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), where he was taking advanced astrophysics classes.

IUPUI physics professor John Ross says of Jacob, “Is he a genius? Well, yeah. Kids his age would normally have problems adding fractions, and he is helping out some of his fellow students.”

In fact, the University is so impressed with Jacob that members of the school are seeking grant funding so that Jacob may “get all of those creative juices in a certain direction.”

Already, Jacob’s expanded theory of relatively has turned heads, particularly considering Jacob may be on to something. Professor Scott Tremaine explains, “I’m impressed by his interest in physics and the amount that he has learned so far. The theory that he’s working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics.”

Tremaine adds, “Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize.”

Photo: Jacob Barnett

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John J Caprice said:

Big Bang....Faith or Science The entire theory is based on Hubbell's observation of the frequency shift in the light emitted from distant galaxies. Since the light waves were elongated, the hypothesis was that these galaxies were moving away from the Earth. The assumption is that light is subject to the doppler effect similiar to sound waves. The Big Bag Theory starts to unravel as new more distant Galaxies are discovered. The Big Band date (The Singularity) is constantly adjusted to include these new discoveries. So, the furthest galaxy is now some 13 Billion light years away. (A light year is the distance that light travels in one year, about 10 Trillion Miles). So, the new date is estimated to be about 15 Billion years ago. One may conclude then, that that furthest galaxy is moving at a relative velocity approaching the speed of light. Then we have colliding galaxies, we can observe galaxies that have collided with another galaxy and we are on a collision course with another galaxy. If all matter is moving away from a central point, then how do we explain galaxy collisions? Jacob's calculation will be disregarded or "explained" to the un-educated. Theoretical Physicists explain these contrary observations with more unsupported hypotheses. How did that galaxy move so fast? "Oh. In the beginning there was no time or space. Our calculations do not apply." There is not enough know matter in the Universe to support the calculations in the Big Bang. "Oh, there must be matter that we cannot observe, lets call that "Dark Matter"." Sounds more like Religion to me....A Faith based science...A belief without supported observations. Go get em' Jacob...I saw you on Glen's show last night. It's nice to see a little rational astro physics for a change! JJC

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