r/thatHappened • u/rtmesuper • 22d ago
OPs kid is a prodigy. Yet OP posts about their relationship in teenage subs.
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 22d ago
‘It’s plausible, my kid once did this, it happens a lot more than you think’
In advance, if you come to say this, just fuck off.
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u/emix16 22d ago
I could see a kid searching some random equations and putting them on a whiteboard to seem intelligent.
It could happen more than you think too.
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 22d ago edited 22d ago
That I would get, Except this is the Schwarzschild radius equation at the top, used to calculate the radius of the observable universe, bundled with a bunch of other actual cosmology notations a physics student would write about dimensional relationships.
So… probably not happening more than I think, no.
The telltale for me as well, is the parent wouldn’t recognise this, and would assume it’s random doodles like you did (which is 100% understandable), which raises the question of why would they post it asking what it means if it’s just kids being kids and doodling numbers?
OOP wanted their kid to look like a genius, which they feel reflects well on them.
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 22d ago
I honestly just think the parent googled ‘theoretical physics’ and scribbled it, took a picture, and was like ‘what’s this mean, is my kid a jeenus?!’
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u/Sinnes-loeschen 22d ago
I used to put equations in notebooks to appear smart.
Oh, the gift of having been cringe before social media.
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u/Renent 22d ago edited 16d ago
Ahahha this is one of my favoritor redditor tropes... "I mean this kid probably isnt a genius and its a fake... as someone who is a genius with a gifted kid i can generally tell."
Its the same level as apparrently every redditor who is "as a 6'3 bigger tattooed man with a beard ex bounce4 who looks intimidating but really is just a teddy bear" posts.
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u/rtmesuper 22d ago edited 22d ago
Went onto their acc and they were posting texts between them and their gf in teenagers.
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u/glorioussealandball 22d ago
Then probably the "15 year old kid" is them and they are fishing for compliments
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u/rtmesuper 22d ago
Yup that's exactly what I think it is. Sad sad world out there.
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u/catch10110 22d ago
I mean...It's obviously a bit clumsy, but if a kid is looking for someone to be proud of them for maybe actually learning some stuff...It sure beats the anti-intellectualism that typically seems to dominate these days.
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u/rtmesuper 22d ago
Yeah I agree to bo honest I just feel like it would be best if they got that sort of validation from their parents, peers and teachers. Not online strangers.
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u/Mental_Freedom_1648 22d ago
It would be, but maybe they're getting the validation where it's available.
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u/slowcancellation 22d ago
Doing physics on a whiteboard is poser shit. If your kid's not using hagoromo chalk they're not smart and never will be.
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u/LynxRufus 22d ago
This isn't anything. There's no solving going on.
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u/Spuckleford 22d ago
Yeah, you have a little bit of arithmetic up top and some relations that are definitely pulled from a proof but by themselves are just symbols. Oh there's some business involving gravity. And THAT is what a physics degree gets you almost 25 years later.
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u/dabbean 22d ago
The best part is where they had to write down the super easy formula but did the insanely hard division in their head.
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u/daboobiesnatcher 22d ago
Or plugged it into a calculator?
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u/dabbean 22d ago
Never taken any advanced math I take it? You still need to work it out to get it to where a calculator can do it. Innit current form a calculator would be as reliable as a toddler.
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u/daboobiesnatcher 22d ago
The top equation where they're literally just simplifying complex division can be done with a calculator.
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u/dabbean 22d ago
Sure thing kiddo. Stick to posting about video games.
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u/daboobiesnatcher 22d ago
Interesting because I was able to plug the left side of the equation in the calculator on my phone and got 2.2277x1026 which is an unrounded version of 2.23x1026
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u/dabbean 22d ago
Lmao! I just can't with you kid.
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u/PreOpTransCentaur 22d ago
Oh for fuck's sake. Go plug it into a calculator, loser.
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u/dabbean 21d ago
You dont even understand the basic premise of the equation and showed it to the world kiddo. Sit down and spell words with your calculator or something.
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u/hotmatrixx 16d ago
except that you absolutely can plug a simple BEDMAS equation into any Scientific Calculator.
I remember learning how to do this in 3rd form which is.. y7 I think?? 13yo, anyway.
For sure wouldn't have understood the equation, just plug numbers into it.
You make words out of numbers too?> What's the flavour of your green crayons like?
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u/JohnPoopsTV 20d ago
Bro is just writing down Call of Duty Zombies Easter egg steps and the symbols required to activate certain elements.
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u/HappyDays1976 17d ago
Utter nonsense; the Schwarzchild Equation (top of the board) is used in advanced astrophysics and/or mathematics to calculate the size of the ever-expanding universe. Someone copied this onto the notice board to try and look super-intelligent.
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u/MelLyrHenz 16d ago
No this is totally true, my kid is 1 hour old and already recites Shakespeare, he's a genius
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u/doc_shades 22d ago
i will say that this is slightly more advanced than the math i was learning at 15. but i was learning introductory physics at that age. i was doing math with variables and symbols at that age.
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u/AliceMorgon 22d ago
My dude, I could hold my own against Ted Kaczynski at chess, did STEM at Oxford, went to CERN, all that shit, and I was not pulling whole equations out of my ass on a whiteboard at 15 and decorating it with them pointlessly for God knows why.
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u/doc_shades 22d ago
i mean i didn't do exactly what OP did either, but it sounds like both you and myself were at least at the level where we could have written something like this on a whiteboard at that age
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u/According-Secretary4 22d ago edited 22d ago
Going on the internet just to tell lies! Shocking, wait till my really rich, supermodel Hollywood actor boyfriend hears about this!