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Wow. I watched this program on a math savant, and it was fascinating. How they think he visualizes numbers, and has an extreme memory. He also learned a new language from scratch in a week. And most surprisingly of all, he didn't have any known extraordinary disabilities like most savants tend to have- truly amazing.
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If you want to depress yourself about the state of humanity, take their test. It's easy enough to be a little embarrassing.
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I missed a few, although I did manage to have the correct answer as my second choice....
Also, it is because of the DENSITY of the sun, not it's size, that causes it's gavity to dominate the solar system, so their test has a mistake in it.
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I still say the "microwave oven" one is the best mistake. And as I understand it, it's the mass of the Sun -- neither size nor density -- which matters in this case.
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Well, the mass is sort of the size times the density (if you say that size = volume), so we can all be right and hold hands and sing happy songs.
Maybe that will keep me from bemoaning the state of humanity. You don't need to be a smarty-pants to do well on that test. You don't even need to be a smarty-boxers. And I guess I could say my microwave oven is a wave of some kind...as long as I'm not observing it.
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Isn't E=mc^2 the Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy? Or can it be Relativity too? It's been too long since I last did this stuff.
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You all are such smarty pantses. Uh, smarties pants? And I love being right and holding hands and singing happy songs -- good idea, Shigosei.
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The biggest mistake is calling it a test of "brilliance". It is merely a test of knowledge. To me "brilliance" would be a test of intelligence or problem solving using questions for which you didn't need to have taken a science history lesson.
A monkey who can assemble a step-ladder to reach a banana is displaying a level of "brilliance".
A student who can recite the periodic table is displaying "knowledge". (Or perhaps an extraordinary memory.)
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The Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy states that "Matter and Energy can neither be created or destroyed."
The theory of Relativity showed that Matter can become Energy, maintaining the Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy.
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And as I understand it, it's the mass of the Sun -- neither size nor density -- which matters in this case.
