Carroll | The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy….Sean M. Carroll.

The Big Bang Didn’t Need God to Start Universe, Researchers Say. SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Our universe could have popped into existence 13.7 billion years ago without any divine help whatsoever, researchers say. That may run counter to our instincts, which recoil at the thought of something coming from nothing.

Carroll provides his perspective on why he did not achieve tenure there, and why his subsequent position at Caltech offered him the pleasure of collaborating with top-flight faculty members and graduate students, while allowing the flexibility to pursue his wide-ranging interests as a public intellectual involved in …

So time is something that you experience once and for all – every moment you get to go through once. And you don’t get to turn left through yesterday and visit it again. RAZ: It’s like it’s – there’s always a clock ticking, you know. CARROLL: That’s right.

Time as we think of it isn’t innate to the natural world; it’s a manmade construct intended to describe, monitor, and control industry and individual production.

Einstein’s general theory of relativity established time as a physical thing: it is part of space-time, the gravitational field produced by massive objects. The presence of mass warps space-time, with the result that time passes more slowly close to a massive body such as Earth.

Hipparchus

Euclid, Greek Eukleides, (flourished c. 300 bce, Alexandria, Egypt), the most prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity, best known for his treatise on geometry, the Elements.

Euclid

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Carl Friedrich Gauss one of the greatest mathematicians, is said to have claimed: “Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.” The properties of primes play a crucial part in number theory. An intriguing question is how they are distributed among the other integers.

The 10 best mathematicians

• Hypatia (cAD360-415) Hypatia (375-415AD), a Greek woman mathematician and philosopher.
• Girolamo Cardano (1501 -1576)
• Leonhard Euler (1707- 1783)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
• Georg Cantor (1845-1918)
• Paul Erdös (1913-1996)
• John Horton Conway (b1937)
• Grigori Perelman (b1966)

Christopher Langan

The maximum IQ score assigned by the WAIS-IV, a commonly-used test today, is 160. A score of 135 or above puts a person in the 99th percentile of the population. News articles often put Einstein’s IQ at 160, though it’s unclear what that estimate is based upon.

K. Visalini is an Indian prodigy who is purported to have an officially tested IQ of 225. Visalini also holds several other records including the youngest person to receive CCNA certification and youngest person to receive EXIN cloud computing certification.

All of the prodigies showed uneven cognitive profiles. In fact, one prodigy obtained a total IQ score of 108 and a visual spatial IQ score of 71, which is worse than 97 percent of the general population.

Kim Ung-Yong

IQ stands for intelligence quotient. It’s also important to understand that your IQ score doesn’t exist in isolation. The number actually represents how your results compare to those of other people your age. A score of 116 or more is considered above average. A score of 130 or higher signals a high IQ.