the smartest person ever?

[suckmymuscle]

Leonhard Euler
Bernhard Riemann

Smartest living man is Ed Witten.  The reason half the theorists working on string theory/M-theory are still working on it as opposed to LQD, Lisi's E8 model, and other various forms of QFT/GR unification is because Ed Witten is still working on it. 
When some of the most intelligent people in the world say that the biggest reason String theory still looks like a possible TOE candidate is "Ed Witten believes in it."


There are too many to choose from to name a single person, but it sure as hell isn't some fuckstick artist or musician.  I don't place too much faith in IQ tests either.  Obviously, a person 15 standard deviations from the norm is going to be "smarter" than the average person, but beyond about 125 or so the tests just don't seem to provide any direct correlation between increase in IQ and increase in novel "brilliant" ideas that improve upon theoretical models of various fields of study.

MattT is probably pretty close to Ed Witten though.

  I am writing my dissertation on heterotic string theory. Do you think this Ed Witten guy can help me?

SUCKMYMUSCLE

[doison]

  I think it is because you seem infatuated with him.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

The thread is filled with people posting who they believe to be the smartest person ever.  I followed suit, and posted a funny paraphrase from another physicist to emphasize my point.  

You know what?  I'm finding his fucking info right now and proposing.  What time is it in 'suck my dick while I eat a double meat sub' land?

[Tapeworm]

I marry for money, tight vaginas, and belief that a woman's role is to take care of a man and take care of her appearance, not intelligence. 
Why the fuck would I marry someone because they're smart?  Were you serious with that put down, or is this some kind of "haha...I say really silly things and then see if the person catches the sarcasm" thing?

Whoa.  Set down the axe there, beardman.  Just seemed like a good time to bust your chops.

Hope old Ed like 'em sassy.

[doison]

 I am writing my dissertation on heterotic string theory. Do you think this Ed Witten guy can help me?

SUCKMYMUSCLE

I don't know that I believe you, but if you can answer this basic question from an introduction to string theory course (first graduate course in string theory, so it should be pretty easy), I'll answer your question.  

Consider the Polyakov action of a string moving in D-dimensional Minkowski space background (with metric η_μν taking the typical 4x4 matrix form):

S= -T/2 ∫dσ²√h(σ)h^αβ(σ)∂_αX^μ∂_βX_μ

σ^α = {στ}; X^μ = X^μ(σ^α); σ∈[o,π]; τ ∈(-∞,∞)

∑ = the world sheet; h_αβ(σ^γ) = metric on the world sheet

h(σ^γ) = -det(h_αβ); α = 1,2; μ = 0,...,D-1

(I used a short hand notation for partial derivatives, but didn't use the pre-subscript comma that is often used in tensor analysis in case your profs don't regularly use it)
Obviously, I used summation suppression as usual.

Now:
1) Show the LOCAL symmetry transformations:
    (HINT: one will be reparametrization, the other will be weyl transformations)

2) Compute the energy momentum tensor T_αβ defined by:
       h_αβ ⟶ h_αβ + δh_αβ ⇒ S ⟶ S + δS

       δS = -T/2 ∫dσ²√h(σ)h^αβ(σ)T^αβ

Which condition on T_αβ does invariance under Weyl transformation imply?

(see...we're not even considering a space-time where the curvature tensor doesn't vanish, so you only have to deal with a flat geometry for space-time)

I don't have Latex on this computer, so I had to do it with the damned "special characters" on the mac fonts.  You can reply with latex or post a scan of your scratch work if it's easier.

Good luck on your dissertation!  I don't know why you chose Heterotic string theory, but I guess you have to go with what you're interested in.

[MAXX]

highest measured IQ woman. interesting hearing her thoughts. annoying interviewer though.

[HTexan]

Jesus Christ

[Matt C]

What happened to this infamous getbig member? 

[no one]

hawking is an interesting dude, obviously extremely smart yet can't see the logic flaw in his scientific positivism

a guy who posts on a forum called 'getbig' saying stephen hawking is flawed.

maybe you should stop by CERN on the way home from the gym and get that particle accelerator working.

[Sherief Shalaby]

http://www.ummah.net/history/scholars/

also check

www.hugenasser.com

[wavelength]

a guy who posts on a forum called 'getbig' saying stephen hawking is flawed.
maybe you should stop by CERN on the way home from the gym and get that particle accelerator working.

I wasn't talking about his scientific achievments but his rather lame attempts at philosophy.

[Azn Muscle]

For combination of Muscle and Brains it's Huge Nasser El Sonbaty all the way. (and on the way!)

/thread
 

[El Diablo Blanco]

I don't know that I believe you, but if you can answer this basic question from an introduction to string theory course (first graduate course in string theory, so it should be pretty easy), I'll answer your question.  

Consider the Polyakov action of a string moving in D-dimensional Minkowski space background (with metric η_μν taking the typical 4x4 matrix form):

S= -T/2 ∫dσ²√h(σ)h^αβ(σ)∂_αX^μ∂_βX_μ

σ^α = {στ}; X^μ = X^μ(σ^α); σ∈[o,π]; τ ∈(-∞,∞)

∑ = the world sheet; h_αβ(σ^γ) = metric on the world sheet

h(σ^γ) = -det(h_αβ); α = 1,2; μ = 0,...,D-1

(I used a short hand notation for partial derivatives, but didn't use the pre-subscript comma that is often used in tensor analysis in case your profs don't regularly use it)
Obviously, I used summation suppression as usual.

Now:
1) Show the LOCAL symmetry transformations:
    (HINT: one will be reparametrization, the other will be weyl transformations)

2) Compute the energy momentum tensor T_αβ defined by:
       h_αβ ⟶ h_αβ + δh_αβ ⇒ S ⟶ S + δS

       δS = -T/2 ∫dσ²√h(σ)h^αβ(σ)T^αβ

Which condition on T_αβ does invariance under Weyl transformation imply?

(see...we're not even considering a space-time where the curvature tensor doesn't vanish, so you only have to deal with a flat geometry for space-time)

I don't have Latex on this computer, so I had to do it with the damned "special characters" on the mac fonts.  You can reply with latex or post a scan of your scratch work if it's easier.

Good luck on your dissertation!  I don't know why you chose Heterotic string theory, but I guess you have to go with what you're interested in.

Isaac Asimov never considered himself smart, just considered himself an expert at what he does.  Knowing the equations above doesn't make you smart, it just means you understand string theory.  Asimov also said he wouldn't consider himself any smarter than an auto mechanic because he is not dumb enough to try and fix his own car.

Intelligence is all relative to what you do.

[no one]

I don't know that I believe you, but if you can answer this basic question from an introduction to string theory course (first graduate course in string theory, so it should be pretty easy), I'll answer your question.  

Consider the Polyakov action of a string moving in D-dimensional Minkowski space background (with metric η_μν taking the typical 4x4 matrix form):

S= -T/2 ∫dσ²√h(σ)h^αβ(σ)∂_αX^μ∂_βX_μ

σ^α = {στ}; X^μ = X^μ(σ^α); σ∈[o,π]; τ ∈(-∞,∞)

∑ = the world sheet; h_αβ(σ^γ) = metric on the world sheet

h(σ^γ) = -det(h_αβ); α = 1,2; μ = 0,...,D-1

(I used a short hand notation for partial derivatives, but didn't use the pre-subscript comma that is often used in tensor analysis in case your profs don't regularly use it)
Obviously, I used summation suppression as usual.

Now:
1) Show the LOCAL symmetry transformations:
    (HINT: one will be reparametrization, the other will be weyl transformations)

2) Compute the energy momentum tensor T_αβ defined by:
       h_αβ ⟶ h_αβ + δh_αβ ⇒ S ⟶ S + δS

       δS = -T/2 ∫dσ²√h(σ)h^αβ(σ)T^αβ

Which condition on T_αβ does invariance under Weyl transformation imply?

(see...we're not even considering a space-time where the curvature tensor doesn't vanish, so you only have to deal with a flat geometry for space-time)

I don't have Latex on this computer, so I had to do it with the damned "special characters" on the mac fonts.  You can reply with latex or post a scan of your scratch work if it's easier.

Good luck on your dissertation!  I don't know why you chose Heterotic string theory, but I guess you have to go with what you're interested in.

i notice that 'suckmymuscle' has managed to post in several threads since you posted this query, but somehow must have conveniently forgotten about this thread.

i wish had a nickle for everytime he's been exposed for being a know it all who really knows nothing.

[MAXX]

i notice that 'suckmymuscle' has managed to post in several threads since you posted this query, but somehow must have conveniently forgotten about this thread.

i wish had a nickle for everytime he's been exposed for being a know it all who really knows nothing.

he's busy registring on various physics forums to ask for the answer

[ironneck]

[Mr Nobody]

Looks like that dude might whip some ass.

[ironneck]

Looks like that dude might whip some ass.

sure he killed some greeks back in time

[clued-up]

I think insanely artistic minds which can capture what it is to be alive in a single brush-stroke or note, or whatever are the coolest.

Yes, truly brilliant mind required to breath life into something.

[Lundgren]

Nothing wrong with telling the world about your own superiority

I miss you

[arce1988]

 Albert E.
 S. Hawking

[WillGrant]

Albert E.
 S. Hawking

What about TTT

[Dr Kincaid]

Thats not Lee Priest.

[Purple Aki]

highest measured IQ woman. interesting hearing her thoughts. annoying interviewer though.

Yes, I'd possibly let her suck me off.

Maybe, while fingering my anus at the same time.

[DK II]

John Stuart Mill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

[Tito24]

hot woman indeed. not arrogant or something too.