Meet Jake Barnett, a 12-year-old math prodigy from Indiana who is already blazing new trails in science.
“We were in the crowd, just sitting, listening to this guy ask the crowd if anyone knew why the moons going around Mars were potato-shaped and not round,” she recalls. “Jacob raised his hand and said, ‘Excuse me, but what are the sizes of the moons around Mars?’ “
The lecturer answered, and “Jacob looked at him and said the gravity of the planet . . . is so large that (the moon’s) gravity would not be able to pull it into a round shape.”
Silence.
“That entire building . . . everyone was just looking at him, like, ‘Who is this 3-year-old?’ “
via Genius at work: 12-year-old is studying at IUPUI | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com.