– 8 year old kid goes to Univ!

This 8 year old kid explained the Schrodinger’s Equation to go to the University!!

Song Yoo-geun, 8, wants to build flying cars, defying Newton’s law of gravity, and the physics genius which has made him Korea’s youngest university student may very well drive him to that dream.

Amid scholastic achievements that have confounded experts, the public spotlight is squarely on the child prodigy and his parents, both 46 and both former teachers. What has made Yoo-geun – born late November 1997 and actually just shy of 8 years old – so special?

His parents differ from the vast majority of Korean parents who show a passion approaching zeal for their children’s education.

“No fixed daily routines for our boy,” said Yoo-geun’s parents. “Yoo-geun has a monthly schedule only. Rather than being confined by a rigid timetable, Yoo-geun has the freedom to explore every field he wants to.”

While other children his age are first graders at elementary school, he is a freshman at the Physics Department of Inha University in Incheon, west of Seoul.

He set a record by completing elementary, junior-high and high school curricula in just nine months – a progression that normally takes Koreans 12 years – before being admitted to university.

With no school record to rely on for screening Yoo-geun’s qualifications, the university tested him through an interview in October. He surprised professors by explaining the Schroedinger equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum mechanics.

Experts say the equation, proposed by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schroedinger in 1925, plays a role analogous to Newton’s second law in classical mechanics.

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