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"Time is relative" is a famous quote from theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, and it comes from his unifying space and time into a single woven fabric: spacetime. But once space and time are woven together, EVERYTHING changes, including how time flows in different places. Here's why.
Relativity tells us mass bends spacetime. Think of it like placing a bowling ball on a mattress. The mattress curves under its weight. Put a billiard ball on the same mattress and it bends too, just much less.
30/11/2025
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This week, the boy hailed as Belgium's "Little Einstein" defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp, cementing his status as one of the youngest physics PhDs in recorded history. His research tackled advanced concepts—like Bose polarons in superfluids and supersolids—that most scholars wouldn't touch until their twenties or thirties. Yet for Laurent, this path has been profoundly intimate: the loss of his grandparents at eleven ignited a fire in him to unravel the secrets of longevity—not for personal gain, but to grant others extended, vibrant years.
Experts marvel at his prodigious memory and IQ of 145, a rarity shared by just 0.1 percent of the population. Tech giants from the U.S. and China have dangled lucrative offers to his family, but his parents have rebuffed them, championing his right to evolve on his own terms.
Laurent doesn't claim the absolute youngest PhD title—that belongs to Karl Witte, who graduated at thirteen in 1814—but in contemporary physics, his feat stands virtually unparalleled.
Now fifteen, he's poised to pivot from quantum realms to medical frontiers, eyeing a second doctorate in medical AI to pioneer breakthroughs in aging. His audacious vision? Crafting
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