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No they weren't. What is this. While his annus mirabilis was in his 20s, Einstein was still making some waves into his 60s and he never stopped working or developing things. I don't know why we have to adopt the weird ageist idea about science being a thing done only by the young or that accomplishments only matter if they're done when young. You are also conflating intelligence and discovery. You can discover things without being smart, and you can be smart without making any discoveries.
This guy is a grifter because he is grifting and lying. Not because he hasn't developed a unified field theory.
Objectively, what is the proportion of important work that Einstein contributed to physics pre- and post-50? It's not an "ageist idea," it's reality. Basically all the most brilliant physicists and mathematicians follow the same pattern, blame them for conspiring to make you feel bad about it or whatever.
Do you mean to tell me that you would believe that the single most intelligent person to have ever lived wouldn't have made any significant contributions to their field of work? I don't know where to begin to argue with that. Of course some dumb people make discoveries through luck and some intelligent people don't make discoveries through bad luck, but this guy is saying that he's two to three standard deviations smarter than the smartest person that humanity was ever previously aware of. I don't need a tautology about him being a grifter to know he's a grifter, I can prove it with evidence.
There is no truth to the idea that brilliant work is only done by the young, and objecting to your pseudoscience and ageism is not merely because it "Makes me feel bad" but because it is bunk. Pure and simple.
Your evidence is that he hasn't shocked the world of physics´or neuroscience, most of the people who are in the triple nine society or otherwise score super high on IQ tests, even when done as legitimately as possible, don't.
The reason he is a grifter is because he is using the claim that he is a super genius to grift, not because all smart things are done by 40 or because you can't have a legitimately high IQ (Or a lot of actual intelligence, which a high IQ has very little to do with) without making huge and important discoveries (Idiots have made important discoveries, geniuses have lived their lives not doing so)
Did this hit a nerve? Are you a misunderstood aging genius who is just about to make their mark on the world? I don't disagree with much of what you've been saying, but almost all of it is a response to what you imagine me saying rather than what I'm actually saying.
I can tell you one thing, I know that I'm not personally a genius because I get baited into this kind of shit all the time when I should have learned my lesson a thousand times over at this point. Like, I specifically mentioned age 50, the weird grifter in question is 46, and yet you have inexplicably chosen 40 as the age that I have magically designated as the cutoff for intelligence. At age 40 and one minute you're just drooling and shitting your pants until you die. Obviously.
If you don't want people to call your posts stupid don't post stupid shit? This isn't about a nerve being struck, it's just that you hold dumb beliefs and post about them dumbly.